Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.Sponsored By:Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Status of Embedded Linux — In this talk, Tim will give an overview of issues in the Linux in the embedded space that have come about in the past yearThe 2023 State of The Embedded Linux EcosystemLXD Moves to Canonical — While the team behind Linux Containers regrets that decision and will be missing LXD as one of its projects, it does respect Canonical’s decision and is now in the process of moving the project over.Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXDNearly 40% of Linux gamers on Steam are on Steam Deck — Overall the Steam Deck has kind of taken over Linux gaming and June 2023's statistic are pretty striking. Steam Deck on Twitter —  “Hi all, just a quick note to celebrate a big milestone - we’ve just passed 10,000 Verified and Playable titles on Steam Deck! 🎉🥳🎉 A bunch of these titles are on sale (along with Steam Deck itself) at the Steam Summer Sale!ZFS Block Cloning — Block Cloning allows to clone a file (or a subset of its blocks) into another (or the same) file by just creating additional references to the data blocks without copying the data itself. Block Cloning can be described as a fast, manual deduplication

Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li><li><a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a>: <a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://eoss2023.sched.com/event/1LcNH/status-of-embedded-linux-tim-bird-sony-electronics?iframe=no" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Status of Embedded Linux</a> — In this talk, Tim will give an overview of issues in the Linux in the embedded space that have come about in the past year</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/2023-Embedded-Linux" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The 2023 State of The Embedded Linux Ecosystem</a></li><li><a href="https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LXD Moves to Canonical</a> — While the team behind Linux Containers regrets that decision and will be missing LXD as one of its projects, it does respect Canonical’s decision and is now in the process of moving the project over.</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Pulls-In-LXD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/nearly-40-of-linux-gamers-on-steam-are-on-steam-deck/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nearly 40% of Linux gamers on Steam are on Steam Deck</a> — Overall the Steam Deck has kind of taken over Linux gaming and June 2023's statistic are pretty striking. </li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1676684045261099009" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steam Deck on Twitter</a> — “Hi all, just a quick note to celebrate a big milestone - we’ve just passed 10,000 Verified and Playable titles on Steam Deck! 🎉🥳🎉 A bunch of these titles are on sale (along with Steam Deck itself) at the Steam Summer Sale!</li><li><a href="https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/13392" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ZFS Block Cloning</a> — Block Cloning allows to clone a file (or a subset of its blocks) into another (or the same) file by just creating additional references to the data blocks without copying the data itself. Block Cloning can be described as a fast, manual deduplication</li></ul>

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Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.Sponsored By:Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Linux 6.4 Released — Released With Early Apple M2 Code, More WiFi 7, AMD Guided Autonomous ModeLinux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5 — Linus Torvalds on Sunday announced the release without making any comment at all on the state of the kernel, or the efforts that led to the release of this version. Indeed, he had little to say about the progress of version 6.4Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance ImprovementLinux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of ChangesBcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5Early access to the LXD graphical user interface — While we don’t yet advise you to use the LXD UI in a production setting, we made it available as an experimental feature and would like to invite you to take it out for a spin and share your feedback. Early look at the LXD web UI - YouTubeGoogle Pixel 8 could debut Desktop Mode — The Pixel 8 series is expected to leverage DisplayPort alternate mode, although specific details are not yet available. Through code analysis, it is possible to speculate on Google’s intentions for this feature. One obvious use would be to transform a Pixel 8 phone into a desktop replacement.Ubuntu EdgeValve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer — Great to hear and given her vast experience will be exciting to see what open-source improvements she manages to further advance Linux gaming.Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes — Ultimately, we do not find value in a RHEL rebuild and we are not under any obligation to make things easier for rebuilders; this is our call to make. That brings me to CentOS Stream, of which there is immense confusion. I acknowledge that this is a change in a longstanding tradition where we went above and beyond, and change like this can cause some confusion. Furthering the evolution of CentOS Streamgit.centos.orgA Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model — We fear that be it through incompetence or malice, many RHEL salespeople and business development professionals may regularly violate GPL and no one knows about it. That said, the business model as described by IBM's Red Hat may well comply with the GPL — it's just so murky that any tweak to the model in any direction seems to definitely violate, in our experience.

Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li><li><a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a>: <a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-Released" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux 6.4 Released</a> — Released With Early Apple M2 Code, More WiFi 7, AMD Guided Autonomous Mode</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/26/linux_kernel_6_4_released/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5</a> — Linus Torvalds on Sunday announced the release without making any comment at all on the state of the kernel, or the efforts that led to the release of this version. Indeed, he had little to say about the progress of version 6.4</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Linux-6.5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement</a></li><li><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/06/linux-kernel-6-4-features" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of Changes</a></li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-PR-Linux-6.5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5</a></li><li><a href="https://ubuntu.com//blog/lxd_ui" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Early access to the LXD graphical user interface</a> — While we don’t yet advise you to use the LXD UI in a production setting, we made it available as an experimental feature and would like to invite you to take it out for a spin and share your feedback. </li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqEH_d8LC1k" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Early look at the LXD web UI - YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://www.androidtrends.com/google-pixel-8-could-debut-desktop-mode/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Pixel 8 could debut Desktop Mode</a> — The Pixel 8 series is expected to leverage DisplayPort alternate mode, although specific details are not yet available. Through code analysis, it is possible to speculate on Google’s intentions for this feature. One obvious use would be to transform a Pixel 8 phone into a desktop replacement. </li><li><a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-edge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu Edge</a></li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Another-Linux-GPU-Dev-23" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer</a> — Great to hear and given her vast experience will be exciting to see what open-source improvements she manages to further advance Linux gaming.</li><li><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes</a> — Ultimately, we do not find value in a RHEL rebuild and we are not under any obligation to make things easier for rebuilders; this is our call to make. That brings me to CentOS Stream, of which there is immense confusion. I acknowledge that this is a change in a longstanding tradition where we went above and beyond, and change like this can cause some confusion. </li><li><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream</a></li><li><a href="http://git.centos.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">git.centos.org</a></li><li><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model</a> — We fear that be it through incompetence or malice, many RHEL salespeople and business development professionals may regularly violate GPL and no one knows about it. That said, the business model as described by IBM's Red Hat may well comply with the GPL — it's just so murky that any tweak to the model in any direction seems to definitely violate, in our experience.</li></ul>

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What we really like in Debian 12, the big players backing RISC-V, and the improvements in NextCloud Hub 5. Note: Linux Action News will be off next week.Sponsored By:Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Debian 12 “bookworm” released — This release contains over 11,089 new packages for a total count of 64,419 packages, while over 6,296 packages have been removed as "obsolete". 43,254 packages were updated in this release. The overall disk usage for "bookworm" is 365,016,420 kB (365 GB), and is made up of 1,341,564,204 lines of code.Debian 12 is nearly ready, and reassuringly boringDebian 12 discussion on Hacker NewsLinux Foundation &amp; RISC-V International Launch RISC-V Fundamentals Course — This course prepares IT professionals to write assembly language code for RISC-V processors and use high-level languages like C to develop applications for RISC-V-based systems.RISC-V Fundamentals Training Course — Learn everything you need to know about RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture that is predicted to become ubiquitous as it paves the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation.Help Us Test Evolution — If you’re a bit more advanced user who would like to help with testing and you use Evolution from Flathub, consider switching to the beta channel. You wouldn’t switch to something broken. Milan doesn’t let low quality releases out. It’s for rather rare bugs that would be great to identify and fix before they hit everyone, or for early feedback when UX changes are being done.Evolution Email App Wants Flatpak Beta TestersNextcloud Hub 5 — Hub 5 builds on all the improvements we introduced earlier this year, including the Smart Picker and it’s AI integrations, the cool new Nextcloud Tables app and more.Nextcloud on Twitter — Announcing Hub 5: Self-hosted AI-powered digital workspace for everyone!

What we really like in Debian 12, the big players backing RISC-V, and the improvements in NextCloud Hub 5. Note: Linux Action News will be off next week.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li><li><a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a>: <a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Debian 12 “bookworm” released</a> — This release contains over 11,089 new packages for a total count of 64,419 packages, while over 6,296 packages have been removed as "obsolete". 43,254 packages were updated in this release. The overall disk usage for "bookworm" is 365,016,420 kB (365 GB), and is made up of 1,341,564,204 lines of code.</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/05/debian_12/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Debian 12 is nearly ready, and reassuringly boring</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36269934" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Debian 12 discussion on Hacker News</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/risc-v-fundamentals-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux Foundation &amp; RISC-V International Launch RISC-V Fundamentals Course</a> — This course prepares IT professionals to write assembly language code for RISC-V processors and use high-level languages like C to develop applications for RISC-V-based systems.</li><li><a href="https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/riscv-fundamentals-lfd210/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RISC-V Fundamentals Training Course</a> — Learn everything you need to know about RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture that is predicted to become ubiquitous as it paves the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation.</li><li><a href="https://eischmann.wordpress.com/2023/06/09/help-us-test-evolution/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Help Us Test Evolution</a> — If you’re a bit more advanced user who would like to help with testing and you use Evolution from Flathub, consider switching to the beta channel. You wouldn’t switch to something broken. Milan doesn’t let low quality releases out. It’s for rather rare bugs that would be great to identify and fix before they hit everyone, or for early feedback when UX changes are being done.</li><li><a href="https://www.omglinux.com/evolution-flatpak-beta-testing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Evolution Email App Wants Flatpak Beta Testers</a></li><li><a href="https://nextcloud.com/blog/introducing-hub-5-first-to-deliver-self-hosted-ai-powered-digital-workspace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nextcloud Hub 5</a> — Hub 5 builds on all the improvements we introduced earlier this year, including the Smart Picker and it’s AI integrations, the cool new Nextcloud Tables app and more.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/nextclouders/status/1668602000139862017" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nextcloud on Twitter</a> — Announcing Hub 5: Self-hosted AI-powered digital workspace for everyone!</li></ul>

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Ubuntu gets serious about the immutable desktop, red flags from Red Hat, and the little tricks Apple used to patch Wine.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — In this blog post we discuss the architecture of immutable operating systems, their benefits and drawbacks, and the role of Ubuntu Core in the immutable Linux landscape. Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement — However, the "tradeoff" to focusing on that is they will be pivoting away from less desktop application work and "cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHE version. This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora." LibreOffice to be cut out of RHEL installsAsahi: Big Updates — Get your updater ready!OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi LinuxWine comes to macOS: Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit powered by CrossOver source code — We are ecstatic that Apple chose to use CrossOver’s source code as their emulation solution for the Game Porting Toolkit. Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit is WineApple Home Brew Repo — Using the game-porting-toolkit formula requires downloading the Game Porting Toolkit from developer.apple.com.Game Porting Toolkit — Game Porting Toolkit is Apple's new translation layer which combines Wine with Apple's own D3DMetal which supports DirectX 9-12. Games that use anti-cheat or aggressive DRM generally don't work. Games that require AVX CPUs also do not work e.g. Last of Us. 

Ubuntu gets serious about the immutable desktop, red flags from Red Hat, and the little tricks Apple used to patch Wine.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a>: <a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li><li><a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-core-an-immutable-linux-desktop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base</a> — In this blog post we discuss the architecture of immutable operating systems, their benefits and drawbacks, and the role of Ubuntu Core in the immutable Linux landscape. </li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Less-LibreOffice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement</a> — However, the "tradeoff" to focusing on that is they will be pivoting away from less desktop application work and "cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHE version. This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora." </li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/07/red_hat_drops_libreoffice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LibreOffice to be cut out of RHEL installs</a></li><li><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/110497512340479064" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Asahi: Big Updates</a> — Get your updater ready!</li><li><a href="https://asahilinux.org/2023/06/opengl-3-1-on-asahi-linux/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux</a></li><li><a href="https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/6/6/wine-comes-to-macos-apple-s-game-porting-toolkit-powered-by-crossover-source-code" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wine comes to macOS: Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit powered by CrossOver source code</a> — We are ecstatic that Apple chose to use CrossOver’s source code as their emulation solution for the Game Porting Toolkit. </li><li><a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/136223/apples-game-porting-toolkit-is-wine/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit is Wine</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/apple/homebrew-apple" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Home Brew Repo</a> — Using the game-porting-toolkit formula requires downloading the Game Porting Toolkit from <a href="http://developer.apple.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">developer.apple.com</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Game_Porting_Toolkit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Game Porting Toolkit</a> — Game Porting Toolkit is Apple's new translation layer which combines Wine with Apple's own D3DMetal which supports DirectX 9-12. Games that use anti-cheat or aggressive DRM generally don't work. Games that require AVX CPUs also do not work e.g. Last of Us. </li></ul>

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How the recent XFS bug was squashed, insights into why Microsoft built their own Linux from scratch, and recent attacks on Archive.org.Sponsored By:Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Those Using The XFS File-System Will Want To Avoid Linux 6.3 For NowXFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch — This is a bug fix that we thought just fixed a livelock on stripe aligned filesystems. I'm guessing that in certain circumstances instead of livelocking on repeated failed allocations, it results in a broken mapping being returned to the writeback code and hence misdirecting the writeback IO.Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix — Making Linux 6.3.5 a notable point release is that it has back-ported the fix for the XFS metadata corruption bug that was plaguing the Linux 6.3 point releases.Azure Linux - Microsoft revealed why it did not fork Fedora — Why did Microsoft create Azure Linux? “We needed a Linux distribution internally,” Perrin said. “We wanted a consistent platform for ourselves.” Now there is “one vendor to support the full AKS stack”.Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6 — With Fedora KDE and Kinoite being fully Wayland by default from login (since F38) to desktop (since F34), it's now time to work toward eliminating our dependency on the Xorg server for Plasma 6.0.Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0 — The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases.Fedora 36 Changes: Replace the fbdev drivers with simpledrm and the DRM fbdev emulation layer — This change replaces the legacy Linux frame buffer device (fbdev) drivers that are still used in Fedora, with the latest simpledrm driver and the DRM fbdev emulation layer.Ubuntu 18.04 LTS end of standard support — Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, codenamed ‘Bionic Beaver,’ is approaching the end of its standard five-year maintenance period on 31 May 2023.Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down — Tens of thousands of requests per second for our public domain OCR files were launched from 64 virtual hosts on amazon’s AWS services. This activity brought archive.org down for all users for about an hour.Internet Archive — Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

How the recent XFS bug was squashed, insights into why Microsoft built their own Linux from scratch, and recent attacks on <a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a>.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li><li><a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a>: <a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-XFS-Metadata-Corrupt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Those Using The XFS File-System Will Want To Avoid Linux 6.3 For Now</a></li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/XFS-Patch-For-Linux-6.3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch</a> — This is a bug fix that we thought just fixed a livelock on stripe aligned filesystems. I'm guessing that in certain circumstances instead of livelocking on repeated failed allocations, it results in a broken mapping being returned to the writeback code and hence misdirecting the writeback IO.</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3.5-Released" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix</a> — Making Linux 6.3.5 a notable point release is that it has back-ported the fix for the XFS metadata corruption bug that was plaguing the Linux 6.3 point releases.</li><li><a href="https://devclass.com/2023/05/25/azure-linux-released-at-build-where-microsoft-revealed-why-it-did-not-fork-fedora/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Azure Linux - Microsoft revealed why it did not fork Fedora</a> — Why did Microsoft create Azure Linux? “We needed a Linux distribution internally,” Perrin said. “We wanted a consistent platform for ourselves.” Now there is “one vendor to support the full AKS stack”.</li><li><a href="https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/347" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6</a> — With Fedora KDE and Kinoite being fully Wayland by default from login (since F38) to desktop (since F34), it's now time to work toward eliminating our dependency on the Xorg server for Plasma 6.0.</li><li><a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.0_release_notes/deprecated_functionality#JIRA-RHELPLAN-121048" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0</a> — The <a href="http://X.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">X.org</a> display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases.</li><li><a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceFbdevDrivers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora 36 Changes: Replace the fbdev drivers with simpledrm and the DRM fbdev emulation layer</a> — This change replaces the legacy Linux frame buffer device (fbdev) drivers that are still used in Fedora, with the latest simpledrm driver and the DRM fbdev emulation layer. </li><li><a href="https://ubuntu.com//blog/time-to-prepare-for-ubuntu-18-04-lts-end-of-standard-support-on-31-may-2023-options-for-google-cloud-users" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 18.04 LTS end of standard support</a> — Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, codenamed ‘Bionic Beaver,’ is approaching the end of its standard five-year maintenance period on 31 May 2023. </li><li><a href="https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-dont-bring-us-down/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down</a> — Tens of thousands of requests per second for our public domain OCR files were launched from 64 virtual hosts on amazon’s AWS services. This activity brought <a href="http://archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">archive.org</a> down for all users for about an hour.</li><li><a href="http://archive.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a> — Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.</li></ul>

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Microsoft's new Linux server distro, Red Hat Summit 2023 highlights, big changes at CodeWeavers, and Podman catches up to Docker Desktop.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced — Podman Desktop offers a user-friendly interface for handling containers and integrating with Kubernetes from a local workstation. Podman.ioPodmanPodman Desktop 1.0: Local container development made easyPodman Desktop 1.0 Released As An Alternative To Docker DesktopPodman Desktop 1.0: Local container development made easyIntroducing Azure Linux — This General Availability announcement follows our October preview announcement under the CBL-Mariner project codename. We’d like to thank the customers who provided valuable feedback and insight during our preview. Introduction to the Azure Linux Container Host for AKS | Microsoft LearnCodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust — As of April 12th, the the company has a new shareholder - the CodeWeavers Purpose Trust. This Trust will become the primary owner of CodeWeavers.CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership TrustRed Hat Summit 2023 — Highlights — The Red Hat Summit 2023 witnessed the launch of OpenShift AI and Red Hat Ansible software, security cloud services, and Linux management features.The moment for AIAutomation and the AI revolution — Generative AI is everywhere. But I cannot overstate how different our approach to all this has been.Red Hat Summit 2023: Adolfo Rodriguez, Advance Auto Parts - YouTube — Adolfo Rodriguez, SVP of Technology Transformation at Advance Auto Parts joins theCUBE hosts John Furrier &amp; Rob Strechay for our continuing coverage of Red Hat Summit 2023

Microsoft's new Linux server distro, Red Hat Summit 2023 highlights, big changes at CodeWeavers, and Podman catches up to Docker Desktop.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a>: <a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li><li><a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/podman-desktop-10-next-gen-container-management-solution-streamlining-developers-container-operations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced</a> — Podman Desktop offers a user-friendly interface for handling containers and integrating with Kubernetes from a local workstation. </li><li><a href="http://podman.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podman.io</a></li><li><a href="https://podman.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podman</a></li><li><a href="https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/23/podman-desktop-now-generally-available?extIdCarryOver=true&amp;sc_cid=701f2000001OH6kAAG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podman Desktop 1.0: Local container development made easy</a></li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Podman-Desktop-1.0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podman Desktop 1.0 Released As An Alternative To Docker Desktop</a></li><li><a href="https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/23/podman-desktop-now-generally-available" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podman Desktop 1.0: Local container development made easy</a></li><li><a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-infrastructure-blog/introducing-the-azure-linux-container-host-for-aks/ba-p/3824101" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Introducing Azure Linux</a> — This General Availability announcement follows our October preview announcement under the CBL-Mariner project codename. We’d like to thank the customers who provided valuable feedback and insight during our preview. </li><li><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-linux/intro-azure-linux" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Introduction to the Azure Linux Container Host for AKS | Microsoft Learn</a></li><li><a href="https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2023/5/19/a-new-chapter-for-codeweavers-and-myself-trust-me" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust</a> — As of April 12th, the the company has a new shareholder - the CodeWeavers Purpose Trust. This Trust will become the primary owner of CodeWeavers.</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/CodeWeavers-Employee-Trust" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust</a></li><li><a href="https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/tech-general/articles/red-hat-summit-2023-key-highlights/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat Summit 2023 — Highlights</a> — The Red Hat Summit 2023 witnessed the launch of OpenShift AI and Red Hat Ansible software, security cloud services, and Linux management features.</li><li><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/moment-ai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The moment for AI</a></li><li><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/automation-and-ai-revolution" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Automation and the AI revolution</a> — Generative AI is everywhere. But I cannot overstate how different our approach to all this has been.</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdn5NESGERg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat Summit 2023: Adolfo Rodriguez, Advance Auto Parts - YouTube</a> — Adolfo Rodriguez, SVP of Technology Transformation at Advance Auto Parts joins theCUBE hosts John Furrier &amp; Rob Strechay for our continuing coverage of Red Hat Summit 2023</li></ul>

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Bcachefs hits a major milestone, how the Red Hat cuts impact Fedora, Plasma 6 plans, and the software update bricking EV batteries.Sponsored By:Jupiter Network Membership: Support the entire network, and get access to every member's special feed for every show on the network. Promo Code: thesignalLinode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:bcachefs out for review — I'm submitting the bcachefs filesystem for review and inclusion.bcachefs TestServerSetupBcachefs Submitted For Review - Aims For MainlineFedora Program Manager Laid Off — On 24 April 2023, Red Hat announced a 4% reduction in global staff. As a member of that 4%, today is my last day at Red Hat.Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat CutsKDE Developers Planning For Plasma 6.0 — This week my fellow developers and I are in Germany for an in-person Plasma sprint–our first since 2019!KDE Developers In Germany Planning For Plasma 6.0KDE Plasma 6 to Ship with Floating Panel by Default, Double-Click for Opening FilesTesla sued over battery-busting OTA patch in Model S, X — The named plaintiffs claim that, despite Tesla saying their batteries are supposed to last the life of the vehicle, the Musk-owned automaker "deliberately and significantly interfere[d] with the car's performance through software updates that reduce operating capacity."

Bcachefs hits a major milestone, how the Red Hat cuts impact Fedora, Plasma 6 plans, and the software update bricking EV batteries.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="http://jupiter.party" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jupiter Network Membership</a>: <a href="http://jupiter.party" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Support the entire network, and get access to every member's special feed for every show on the network.</a> Promo Code: thesignal</li><li><a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a>: <a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li><li><a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230509165657.1735798-1-kent.overstreet@linux.dev/T/#mf171fd06ffa420fe1bcf0f49a2b44a361ca6ac44" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bcachefs out for review</a> — I'm submitting the bcachefs filesystem for review and inclusion.</li><li><a href="https://bcachefs.org/TestServerSetup/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bcachefs TestServerSetup</a></li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-For-Review-Linux" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bcachefs Submitted For Review - Aims For Mainline</a></li><li><a href="https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2023/05/12/inaction-bcotton/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora Program Manager Laid Off</a> — On 24 April 2023, Red Hat announced a 4% reduction in global staff. As a member of that 4%, today is my last day at Red Hat.</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-PM-Red-Hat-Laid-Off" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts</a></li><li><a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/05/05/planning-the-future-of-plasma/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KDE Developers Planning For Plasma 6.0</a> — This week my fellow developers and I are in Germany for an in-person Plasma sprint–our first since 2019!</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Sprint-Germany" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KDE Developers In Germany Planning For Plasma 6.0</a></li><li><a href="https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-to-ship-with-floating-panel-by-default-double-click-for-opening-files" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KDE Plasma 6 to Ship with Floating Panel by Default, Double-Click for Opening Files</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/16/tesla_battery_patch_lawsuit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tesla sued over battery-busting OTA patch in Model S, X</a> — The named plaintiffs claim that, despite Tesla saying their batteries are supposed to last the life of the vehicle, the Musk-owned automaker "deliberately and significantly interfere[d] with the car's performance through software updates that reduce operating capacity."</li></ul>

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We get you up to speed on two serious flaws, Linux's recent gaming loss, Ubuntu doubling down on RISC-V, and news from the Open Source Summit North America.Sponsored By:Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:CVE - CVE-2023-28410 — Improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer in some Intel(R) i915 Graphics drivers for linux before kernel version 6.2.10 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. INTEL-SA-00886Intel Security CenterNew NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges — A new Linux NetFilter kernel flaw has been discovered, allowing unprivileged local users to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing complete control over a system.NVD - CVE-2023-32233Goodbye to Roblox on Linux — I’m sorry to be such a downer about this, but it’s the reality. We have to spend our time porting to and supporting the platforms that will grow our community.Proper support for the Linux platform - Feature RequestsUbuntu 23.04 Now Works on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC — ”This partnership will provide users with a seamless development experience, allowing them to leverage the best of open source software and RISC-V through Ubuntu and VisionFive 2.”Canonical enables Ubuntu on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computerOpen Source Summit North America — Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today.AWS open-sources snapshot fuzzing and policy authorization toolsSchedule - Linux Foundation EventsThe Linux Foundation on Twitter

We get you up to speed on two serious flaws, Linux's recent gaming loss, Ubuntu doubling down on RISC-V, and news from the Open Source Summit North America.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li><li><a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a>: <a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=%20CVE-2023-28410" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CVE - CVE-2023-28410</a> — Improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer in some Intel(R) i915 Graphics drivers for linux before kernel version 6.2.10 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. </li><li><a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00886.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">INTEL-SA-00886</a></li><li><a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/default.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intel Security Center</a></li><li><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-kernel-netfilter-flaw-gives-attackers-root-privileges/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges</a> — A new Linux NetFilter kernel flaw has been discovered, allowing unprivileged local users to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing complete control over a system.</li><li><a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32233" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NVD - CVE-2023-32233</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/goodbye-to-roblox-on-linux-with-their-new-anti-cheat-and-wine-blocking/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goodbye to Roblox on Linux</a> — I’m sorry to be such a downer about this, but it’s the reality. We have to spend our time porting to and supporting the platforms that will grow our community.</li><li><a href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/proper-support-for-the-linux-platform/56544/88" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Proper support for the Linux platform - Feature Requests</a></li><li><a href="https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-23-04-now-works-on-starfives-visionfive-2-risc-v-single-board-computer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 23.04 Now Works on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC</a> — ”This partnership will provide users with a seamless development experience, allowing them to leverage the best of open source software and RISC-V through Ubuntu and VisionFive 2.”</li><li><a href="https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-enables-ubuntu-on-starfive-visionfive2-risc-v-board" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canonical enables Ubuntu on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer</a></li><li><a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Open Source Summit North America</a> — Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today.</li><li><a href="https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/10/aws-open-sources-internally-created-snapshot-fuzzing-policy-authorization-tools/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AWS open-sources snapshot fuzzing and policy authorization tools</a></li><li><a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/program/schedule/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Schedule - Linux Foundation Events</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/linuxfoundation/status/1656334418133254144" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Linux Foundation on Twitter</a></li></ul>

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The results from the recent HDR Hackfest, Mozilla's new acquisition, and the concerning crack down on free software encryption.Sponsored By:Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:HDR hackfest wrap-up — People from various organizations were on-site: Red Hat, KDE, System76, AMD, Igalia, Collabora, Canonical, etc. Some more people from NVIDIA, Intel and Google joined us remotely (some of them waking up at 2 AM due to their timezone!).Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla — I have exciting news to share, Fakespot has been acquired by Mozilla! We are joining a company that develops one of the most popular browsers in the world in Firefox with a lineage that dates back to the origins of the internet.Apple removes Fakespot from App Store after Amazon complainsMore Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.4 — New Rust code for Linux 6.4 includes the introduction of the pin-init API, which is for dealing with safe pinned initialization and allows reducing the amount of "unsafe" Rust code within the kernel.Asahi Lina on Twitter: My Rust contributions for Linux 6.4 are finally merged upstream! 🦀🐧 — The next big challenge is going to be the DRM subsystem abstractions!India blocks 14 mobile apps used by terrorists in Pakistan to send information in J-K — As inputs received that these applications are being used to further terror propaganda and incite youths in Jammu and Kashmir, the Central government blocked them under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.India removes ban on VLC media player after cybersecurity concerns addressedText of the RESTRICT Act — To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, and for other purposes...Tell Congress: Don’t Outlaw Encrypted Applications

The results from the recent HDR Hackfest, Mozilla's new acquisition, and the concerning crack down on free software encryption.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li><li><a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a>: <a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://emersion.fr/blog/2023/hdr-hackfest-wrap-up/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HDR hackfest wrap-up</a> — People from various organizations were on-site: Red Hat, KDE, System76, AMD, Igalia, Collabora, Canonical, etc. Some more people from NVIDIA, Intel and Google joined us remotely (some of them waking up at 2 AM due to their timezone!).</li><li><a href="https://www.fakespot.com/post/fakespot-acquired-by-mozilla" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla</a> — I have exciting news to share, Fakespot has been acquired by Mozilla! We are joining a company that develops one of the most popular browsers in the world in Firefox with a lineage that dates back to the origins of the internet.</li><li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/16/apple-removes-fakespot-from-app-store-after-amazon-complains.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple removes Fakespot from App Store after Amazon complains</a></li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-More-Rust" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.4</a> — New Rust code for Linux 6.4 includes the introduction of the pin-init API, which is for dealing with safe pinned initialization and allows reducing the amount of "unsafe" Rust code within the kernel.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/LinaAsahi/status/1652957123779919872?cxt=HHwWgIDU_eHvvfAtAAAA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Asahi Lina on Twitter: My Rust contributions for Linux 6.4 are finally merged upstream! 🦀🐧</a> — The next big challenge is going to be the DRM subsystem abstractions!</li><li><a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/centre-blocks-14-mobile-apps-used-by-terrorists-in-pakistan-to-send-info-in-jammu-and-kashmir-101682913776616.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">India blocks 14 mobile apps used by terrorists in Pakistan to send information in J-K</a> — As inputs received that these applications are being used to further terror propaganda and incite youths in Jammu and Kashmir, the Central government blocked them under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.</li><li><a href="https://therecord.media/india-removes-ban-on-vlc-media-player-after-cybersecurity-concerns-addressed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">India removes ban on VLC media player after cybersecurity concerns addressed</a></li><li><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Text of the RESTRICT Act</a> — To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, and for other purposes...</li><li><a href="https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tell Congress: Don’t Outlaw Encrypted Applications</a></li></ul>

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What we know about the Red Hat layoffs, highlights of Linux 6.3, and Canonical's bold claim in Ubuntu 23.04.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs” — The tech layoffs have now reached Red Hat with "hundreds of jobs" being cut and the initial round of layoffs being announced today. Message to Red Hat associates todayIBM announces layoffs at Red Hat — "Our reductions will focus on general and administrative (G&amp;A) and similar roles across all functions and represent a reduction of just under four percent in total," he said. "We will not reduce roles directly selling to customers or building our products."Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released —  Introduces a new Intel VPU DRM accelerated driver, BIG TCP support for IPv4, and native Steam Deck controller support. Btrfs Receives A Very Important Last Minute Fix For Linux 6.3 — Ahead of the Linux 6.3 kernel being potentially released as stable on Sunday, two last-minute patches for the Btrfs file-system driver were submittedLinux 6.3 Released With More Meteor Lake Enablement — Zen 4 Auto IBRS &amp; Much MoreLinux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD &amp; Intel — Also Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards &amp; MoreIntel i219-LM Had Only Been Running At ~60% Of MaxThe new Flathub Website — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution.Flathub Website Gets a Brand New LookDocker Security Essentials eBook — This guide focuses on securing the Docker platform on Linux. Follow along with the techniques demonstrated in this guide. All you need is a Linux server with Docker installed and running.Ubuntu 23.04 Released — Our focus, as always, has been improving quality, performance and enjoyment for all our users, whether that’s more elegant update handling for snaps, improved UI for installation and quick settings or a more accessible gaming experience.Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap — [The] Snap of Steam [is] being promoted to stable. Canonical said over 150,000 people downloaded the preview version, so there was plenty of interest in it. This Snap bundles a bunch of dependencies needed allowing you to run new and old titles without messing with PPAs.Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster scuttles into public view — Lunar Lobster adds support for Microsoft Azure Active Directory — a first for a Linux desktop according to Canonical. The feature will allow users on Microsoft 365 Enterprise plans to authenticate Ubuntu Desktops using a common set of credentials.Ubuntu 23.04 Flavors: What’s New — Arriving alongside the Ubuntu 23.04 release are new versions of official community flavors.Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 — Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to enable native user authentication with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).aad-auth: Azure AD authentication module for Ubuntu — Azure AD User Authentication will be included as part of an Ubuntu Pro subscription in Ubuntu 23.04 before being backported to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and future LTS releases from 2023.microsoft-authentication-library-for-go — The MSAL library for Go is part of the Microsoft identity platform for developers (formerly named Azure AD) v2.0. It enables you to acquire security tokens to call protected APIs. It uses industry-standard OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.Next Ubuntu 23.10 Name — The Ubuntu release that will be delivered in October 2023, designated 23.10.

What we know about the Red Hat layoffs, highlights of Linux 6.3, and Canonical's bold claim in Ubuntu 23.04.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linode</a>: <a href="http://linode.com/lan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li><li><a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Layoffs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs”</a> — The tech layoffs have now reached Red Hat with "hundreds of jobs" being cut and the initial round of layoffs being announced today. </li><li><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/message-red-hat-associates-today" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Message to Red Hat associates today</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/24/ibm_red_hat_layoffs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IBM announces layoffs at Red Hat</a> — "Our reductions will focus on general and administrative (G&amp;A) and similar roles across all functions and represent a reduction of just under four percent in total," he said. "We will not reduce roles directly selling to customers or building our products."</li><li><a href="https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-3-officially-released-this-is-whats-new" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released</a> — Introduces a new Intel VPU DRM accelerated driver, BIG TCP support for IPv4, and native Steam Deck controller support. </li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Discard-Tuning-Linux-6.3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Btrfs Receives A Very Important Last Minute Fix For Linux 6.3</a> — Ahead of the Linux 6.3 kernel being potentially released as stable on Sunday, two last-minute patches for the Btrfs file-system driver were submitted</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-Released" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux 6.3 Released With More Meteor Lake Enablement</a> — Zen 4 Auto IBRS &amp; Much More</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-Feature-Recap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD &amp; Intel</a> — Also Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards &amp; More</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-i219-LM-Linux-60p-Fix" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intel i219-LM Had Only Been Running At ~60% Of Max</a></li><li><a href="https://flathub.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The new Flathub Website</a> — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution.</li><li><a href="https://www.omglinux.com/flathub-website-just-got-a-major-redesign/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Flathub Website Gets a Brand New Look</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linode.com/content/hackersploit-docker-security-essentials-ebook/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Docker Security Essentials eBook</a> — This guide focuses on securing the Docker platform on Linux. Follow along with the techniques demonstrated in this guide. All you need is a Linux server with Docker installed and running.</li><li><a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-23-04-release-roundup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 23.04 Released</a> — Our focus, as always, has been improving quality, performance and enjoyment for all our users, whether that’s more elegant update handling for snaps, improved UI for installation and quick settings or a more accessible gaming experience.</li><li><a href="https://releases.ubuntu.com/23.04/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/ubuntu-2304-is-out-now-with-gnome-44-and-a-stable-steam-snap/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap</a> — [The] Snap of Steam [is] being promoted to stable. Canonical said over 150,000 people downloaded the preview version, so there was plenty of interest in it. This Snap bundles a bunch of dependencies needed allowing you to run new and old titles without messing with PPAs.</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/20/ubuntu_2304_lunar_lobster/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster scuttles into public view</a> — Lunar Lobster adds support for Microsoft Azure Active Directory — a first for a Linux desktop according to Canonical. The feature will allow users on Microsoft 365 Enterprise plans to authenticate Ubuntu Desktops using a common set of credentials.</li><li><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/04/ubuntu-23-04-flavors-released" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 23.04 Flavors: What’s New</a> — Arriving alongside the Ubuntu 23.04 release are new versions of official community flavors.</li><li><a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/azure-ad-authentication-comes-to-ubuntu-desktop-23-04" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04</a> — Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to enable native user authentication with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).</li><li><a href="https://github.com/ubuntu/aad-auth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">aad-auth: Azure AD authentication module for Ubuntu</a> — Azure AD User Authentication will be included as part of an Ubuntu Pro subscription in Ubuntu 23.04 before being backported to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and future LTS releases from 2023.</li><li><a href="https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-go" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">microsoft-authentication-library-for-go</a> — The MSAL library for Go is part of the Microsoft identity platform for developers (formerly named Azure AD) v2.0. It enables you to acquire security tokens to call protected APIs. It uses industry-standard OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.</li><li><a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/mantic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Next Ubuntu 23.10 Name</a> — The Ubuntu release that will be delivered in October 2023, designated 23.10.</li></ul>

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Ubuntu 18.04 is out and we round up the new features, the flavours, and our first takes. The Librem 5 learns a new trick, and Linux apps on Chrome OS looks like a much bigger deal than first suspected. Plus what's great about GIMP's biggest release in six years, and more.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Ubuntu Touch will be an official option on the Librem 5 — While the Librem 5 will ship with Free Software Foundation-endorsed PureOS by default, utilizing GNOME across all devices, Purism will support customers who want to easily install Ubuntu Touch offering great diversity for users around the world.Purism feel the icy breath of Intel on their neck — After receiving a courtesy request from Intel’s Director of Software Infrastructure, we have decided to remove this post’s technical contents while we investigate our options.Chrome OS moves a step closer to proper Linux — A new Terminal app has been added to the app drawer, and clicking it opens a dialog explaining the feature.Linux apps will look seamless in Chrome OS — First native Linux apps in Chrome OS, and they’ve opted for Adapta, a popular Material Design-inspired Gtk theme that can be used on many of your favorite GNU/Linux distributions.Huge GIMP Update — GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However the new version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools, better file formats support, various usability improvements, revamped color management support, a plethora of improvements targeted at digital painters and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.Ubuntu 18.04 released — Optimised for multi-cloud infrastructure, machine learning, AI and software development18.04 flavours also released — Long-term support (LTS) releases of Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie and the (always magnificent) Ubuntu MATE are available to download.Clear focus on cloud and containers — “Multi-cloud operations are the new normal” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu. “Boot-time and performance-optimised images of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on every major public cloud make it the fastest and most efficient OS for cloud computing, especially for storage and compute-intensive tasks like machine learning.”Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch — I've written a script to build a full Ubuntu Desktop image for the SwitchTechSNAP Episode 365: The Unfixable Exploit — ShofEL2, a Tegra X1 and Nintendo Switch exploit

Ubuntu 18.04 is out and we round up the new features, the flavours, and our first takes. The Librem 5 learns a new trick, and Linux apps on Chrome OS looks like a much bigger deal than first suspected. Plus what's great about GIMP's biggest release in six years, and more.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://puri.sm/posts/ubports-ubuntu-touch-on-librem5-collaboration/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu Touch will be an official option on the Librem 5</a> — While the Librem 5 will ship with Free Software Foundation-endorsed PureOS by default, utilizing GNOME across all devices, Purism will support customers who want to easily install Ubuntu Touch offering great diversity for users around the world.</li><li><a href="https://puri.sm/posts/intel-fsp-reverse-engineering-finding-the-real-entry-point/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Purism feel the icy breath of Intel on their neck</a> — After receiving a courtesy request from Intel’s Director of Software Infrastructure, we have decided to remove this post’s technical contents while we investigate our options.</li><li><a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/04/22/terminal-app-appears-chome-os-dev-hints-future-linux-application-support/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chrome OS moves a step closer to proper Linux</a> — A new Terminal app has been added to the app drawer, and clicking it opens a dialog explaining the feature.</li><li><a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/chrome-os-native-linux-apps-material-design-theme/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux apps will look seamless in Chrome OS</a> — First native Linux apps in Chrome OS, and they’ve opted for Adapta, a popular Material Design-inspired Gtk theme that can be used on many of your favorite GNU/Linux distributions.</li><li><a href="https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Huge GIMP Update</a> — GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However the new version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools, better file formats support, various usability improvements, revamped color management support, a plethora of improvements targeted at digital painters and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.</li><li><a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 18.04 released</a> — Optimised for multi-cloud infrastructure, machine learning, AI and software development</li><li><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/ubuntu-flavors-18-04-release-download-features" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">18.04 flavours also released</a> — Long-term support (LTS) releases of Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie and the (always magnificent) Ubuntu MATE are available to download.</li><li><a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/04/26/ubuntu-18-04-lts-optimised-for-security-multi-cloud-containers-ai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clear focus on cloud and containers</a> — “Multi-cloud operations are the new normal” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu. “Boot-time and performance-optimised images of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on every major public cloud make it the fastest and most efficient OS for cloud computing, especially for storage and compute-intensive tasks like machine learning.”</li><li><a href="https://gbatemp.net/threads/ubuntu-18-04-on-a-switch.502147/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch</a> — I've written a script to build a full Ubuntu Desktop image for the Switch</li><li><a href="http://techsnap.systems/365" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TechSNAP Episode 365: The Unfixable Exploit</a> — ShofEL2, a Tegra X1 and Nintendo Switch exploit</li></ul>

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Arch finds itself in the barrel, Ubuntu goes on a diet, and Python's leader for life has had enough, and steps down. Plus Debian joins KDE's council of wizards.Sponsored By:Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain MalwareMinimal Ubuntu releasedGuido van Rossum resigns as Python leaderPEP 572 and decision-making in PythonFirefox for Android enters maintenance phase as team prepares new browserArm throws shade on RISC-VBut then backtracksHTC's blockchain smartphoneDebian Joins KDE's Advisory Board

Arch finds itself in the barrel, Ubuntu goes on a diet, and Python's leader for life has had enough, and steps down. Plus Debian joins KDE's council of wizards.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://linux.ting.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ting</a>: <a href="https://linux.ting.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!</a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://sensorstechforum.com/arch-linux-aur-repository-found-contain-malware/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware</a></li><li><a href="https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/09/minimal-ubuntu-released" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Minimal Ubuntu released</a></li><li><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/759654/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader</a></li><li><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/757713/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PEP 572 and decision-making in Python</a></li><li><a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/firefox-android-maintenance-new-browser/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox for Android enters maintenance phase as team prepares new browser</a></li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=ARM-RISC-V-Facts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arm throws shade on RISC-V</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/10/arm_riscv_website/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">But then backtracks</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/10/17548104/htc-exodus-blockchain-powered-smartphone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HTC's blockchain smartphone</a></li><li><a href="https://dot.kde.org/2018/07/12/debian-joins-kdes-advisory-board" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Debian Joins KDE's Advisory Board</a></li></ul>

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We've got the new Raspberry Pi 4 and share our thoughts, why Microsoft applied to join the linux-distros mailing list, and Ubuntu's 32-bit future is clarified. Plus Mozilla's big plans Firefox on Android, and the future of Steam on Linux.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Raspberry Pi 4 Released — Raspberry Pi 4 is now on sale, starting at $35. This is a comprehensive upgrade, touching almost every element of the platform. For the first time we provide a PC-like level of performance for most users, while retaining the interfacing capabilities and hackability of the classic Raspberry Pi line.New version of Raspbian — We are actually releasing it slightly in advance of the official Debian release date. The reason for this is that one of the important new features of Raspberry Pi 4 Slightly faster than Stretch versionNo USB boot yetReinventing Firefox for Android — Today we’re very happy to announce a pilot of our new browser for Android devices that is available to early adopters for testing as of now. Firefox to get a random password generatorMicrosoft applies to join linux-distros mailing list — Windows giant cheered on by Linux Foundation as it seeks membership of private security-focused message board.Register's CoverageIntroducing people.kernel.org  — Ever since the demise of Google+, many developers have expressed a desire to have a service that would provide a way to create and manage content in a format that would be more rich and easier to access than email messages sent to LKML.Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS — We will put in place a community process to determine which 32-bit packages are needed to support legacy software, and can add to that list post-release if we miss something that is needed.

We've got the new Raspberry Pi 4 and share our thoughts, why Microsoft applied to join the linux-distros mailing list, and Ubuntu's 32-bit future is clarified. Plus Mozilla's big plans Firefox on Android, and the future of Steam on Linux.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Raspberry Pi 4 Released</a> — Raspberry Pi 4 is now on sale, starting at $35. This is a comprehensive upgrade, touching almost every element of the platform. For the first time we provide a PC-like level of performance for most users, while retaining the interfacing capabilities and hackability of the classic Raspberry Pi line.</li><li><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/buster-the-new-version-of-raspbian/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New version of Raspbian</a> — We are actually releasing it slightly in advance of the official Debian release date. The reason for this is that one of the important new features of Raspberry Pi 4 </li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=raspbian-10-benchmarks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slightly faster than Stretch version</a></li><li><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/#comment-1510410" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">No USB boot yet</a></li><li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventing-firefox-for-android-a-preview/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reinventing Firefox for Android</a> — Today we’re very happy to announce a pilot of our new browser for Android devices that is available to early adopters for testing as of now. </li><li><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-get-a-random-password-generator-like-chrome/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox to get a random password generator</a></li><li><a href="https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/26/2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft applies to join linux-distros mailing list</a> — Windows giant cheered on by Linux Foundation as it seeks membership of private security-focused message board.</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/27/microsoft_linux_distro_list/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Register's Coverage</a></li><li><a href="https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/introducing-people-kernel-org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Introducing people.kernel.org </a> — Ever since the demise of Google+, many developers have expressed a desire to have a service that would provide a way to create and manage content in a format that would be more rich and easier to access than email messages sent to LKML. </li><li><a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/statement-on-32-bit-i386-packages-for-ubuntu-19-10-and-20-04-lts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS</a> — We will put in place a community process to determine which 32-bit packages are needed to support legacy software, and can add to that list post-release if we miss something that is needed.</li></ul>

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Chris and Joe look back at the big news stories of 2017, some notable trends, the changes that impacted Desktop Linux users, and the topics that dominated the community discussion. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Arch Drops 32 bit — The decision means that February ISO will be the last that allows toinstall 32 bit Arch Linux. The next 9 months are deprecation period,during which i686 will be still receiving upgraded packages. Startingfrom November 2017, packaging and repository tools will no longerrequire that from maintainers, effectively making i686 unsupported.Tails 3.0 will require a 64-bit processor — We have waited for years until we felt it was the right time to do this switch. Still, this was a hard decision for us to make.Ubuntu 17.10 Will Drop The 32-bit Desktop ISO —  There will no longer be any "ubuntu-desktop-i386.iso" produced. There is no longer any effective QA or testing being done on the Ubuntu i386 desktop image on actual 32-bit-only hardware. Munich voted to return to Windows — Munich city council's administrative and personnel committee has decided to move any remaining Linux systems to Windows 10 in 2020.WSL added new distros and became easier to install — At its Build 2017 developer conference today, Microsoft announced that Ubuntu has arrived in the Windows StoreBitcoin Forked — It was created by Bitcoin supporters worried about growing congestion in the mainstream bitcoin network that has led to slow payment processing and high fees. Bitcoin Cash removes an important technical obstacle that has hampered the growth of the mainline Bitcoin network. In principle, that could allow Bitcoin Cash to become more widely used—and hence more valuable—in the long run.And Forked Again — The trouble began earlier this year when a group of cryptocurrency upstarts cloned Bitcoin to create their own version, called Bitcoin Cash. The split, called a "hard fork," came after a long and acrimonious disagreement about how to get Bitcoin to handle more traffic failed to resolve amicably. Now, another group of Bitcoiners wants to create yet another version of the world's most popular digital money on October 25. They're calling it Bitcoin Gold.And jumped around 20x in value this year — Bitcoin is now worth over $10,000. The cryptocurrency, which crossed the milestone for the first time since its creation in 2008, surged past $10,000 on Tuesday evening as it climbs toward $11,000, according to research site CoinDesk. Bitcoin has spiked 933 percent since the beginning of the year, when it traded at $968.23, reports the Wall Street Journal.The Ubuntu announcement that dominated the year — This has been, personally, a very difficult decision, because of the force of my conviction in the convergence future, and my personal engagement with the people and the product, both of which are amazing. We feel like a family, but this choice is shaped by commercial constraints, and those two are hard to reconcile.Cyanogenmod became Lineage OS — A new fork of CyanogenMod called Lineage OS is taking up the mantle, and it will keep most of what you loved about CyanogenMod.Sailfish carried on — Today it’s our pleasure to announce all the details for Sailfish X, aka Sailfish OS for Sony Xperia X! Android took a step towards solving the updates problem — With Android O, we've been working very closely with device makers and silicon manufacturers to take steps toward solving this problem, and we're excited to give you a sneak peek at Project Treble, the biggest change to the low-level system architecture of Android to date.Librem 5 funded — This Monday, 14 days early, we have crossed a historic milestone.Firefox OS officially died — Mozilla is shutting down its “connected devices” group, which was responsible for the failed smartphone operating system Firefox OS and, more recently, attempts to build the OS into devices like routers, streaming boxes, and even basic computers.Mozilla acquired Pocket — Pocket will join Mozilla’s product portfolio as a new product line alongside the Firefox web browsers with a focus on promoting the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content.Launched Firefox Focus — Firefox Focus allows you to browse the web without being followed by tracking ads which are notoriously known for slowing down your mobile experience.Project Common Voice — Voice is natural, voice is human. That’s why we’re fascinated with creating usable voice technology for our machines. But to create voice systems, an extremely large amount of voice data is required.Firefox Quantum — It’s by far the biggest update we’ve had since we launched Firefox 1.0 in 2004Faced a lawsuit over their Yahoo deal — We recently exercised our contractual right to terminate our agreement with Yahoo based on a number of factors including doing what’s best for our brand, our effort to provide quality web search, and the broader content experience for our users.

Chris and Joe look back at the big news stories of 2017, some notable trends, the changes that impacted Desktop Linux users, and the topics that dominated the community discussion. <a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2017-January/028660.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arch Drops 32 bit</a> — The decision means that February ISO will be the last that allows to install 32 bit Arch Linux. The next 9 months are deprecation period, during which i686 will be still receiving upgraded packages. Starting from November 2017, packaging and repository tools will no longer require that from maintainers, effectively making i686 unsupported. </li><li><a href="https://tails.boum.org/news/Tails_3.0_will_require_a_64-bit_processor/index.en.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tails 3.0 will require a 64-bit processor</a> — We have waited for years until we felt it was the right time to do this switch. Still, this was a hard decision for us to make.</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Ubuntu-17.10-Drops-i386-ISO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 17.10 Will Drop The 32-bit Desktop ISO</a> — There will no longer be any "ubuntu-desktop-i386.iso" produced. There is no longer any effective QA or testing being done on the Ubuntu i386 desktop image on actual 32-bit-only hardware. </li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/13/munich_committee_says_all_windows_2020/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Munich voted to return to Windows</a> — Munich city council's administrative and personnel committee has decided to move any remaining Linux systems to Windows 10 in 2020.</li><li><a href="https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/11/ubuntu-arrives-in-the-windows-store-suse-and-fedora-are-coming-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WSL added new distros and became easier to install</a> — At its Build 2017 developer conference today, Microsoft announced that Ubuntu has arrived in the Windows Store</li><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/why-the-bitcoin-network-just-split-in-half-and-why-it-matters/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bitcoin Forked</a> — It was created by Bitcoin supporters worried about growing congestion in the mainstream bitcoin network that has led to slow payment processing and high fees. Bitcoin Cash removes an important technical obstacle that has hampered the growth of the mainline Bitcoin network. In principle, that could allow Bitcoin Cash to become more widely used—and hence more valuable—in the long run.</li><li><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3ykaw/yet-another-bitcoin-fork-aims-to-take-power-away-from-big-miners" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">And Forked Again</a> — The trouble began earlier this year when a group of cryptocurrency upstarts cloned Bitcoin to create their own version, called Bitcoin Cash. The split, called a "hard fork," came after a long and acrimonious disagreement about how to get Bitcoin to handle more traffic failed to resolve amicably. Now, another group of Bitcoiners wants to create yet another version of the world's most popular digital money on October 25. They're calling it Bitcoin Gold.</li><li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/29/16714322/bitcoin-surge-10000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">And jumped around 20x in value this year</a> — Bitcoin is now worth over $10,000. The cryptocurrency, which crossed the milestone for the first time since its creation in 2008, surged past $10,000 on Tuesday evening as it climbs toward $11,000, according to research site CoinDesk. Bitcoin has spiked 933 percent since the beginning of the year, when it traded at $968.23, reports the Wall Street Journal.</li><li><a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Ubuntu announcement that dominated the year</a> — This has been, personally, a very difficult decision, because of the force of my conviction in the convergence future, and my personal engagement with the people and the product, both of which are amazing. We feel like a family, but this choice is shaped by commercial constraints, and those two are hard to reconcile.</li><li><a href="https://lifehacker.com/cyanogenmod-is-dead-and-its-successor-is-lineage-os-1790554964" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cyanogenmod became Lineage OS</a> — A new fork of CyanogenMod called Lineage OS is taking up the mantle, and it will keep most of what you loved about CyanogenMod.</li><li><a href="https://blog.jolla.com/sailfishx/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sailfish carried on</a> — Today it’s our pleasure to announce all the details for Sailfish X, aka Sailfish OS for Sony Xperia X! </li><li><a href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/here-comes-treble-modular-base-for.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Android took a step towards solving the updates problem</a> — With Android O, we've been working very closely with device makers and silicon manufacturers to take steps toward solving this problem, and we're excited to give you a sneak peek at Project Treble, the biggest change to the low-level system architecture of Android to date.</li><li><a href="https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-over-1-6-million-what-this-means-for-you/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Librem 5 funded</a> — This Monday, 14 days early, we have crossed a historic milestone.</li><li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/2/14486812/mozilla-shutting-down-connected-devices-group" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox OS officially died</a> — Mozilla is shutting down its “connected devices” group, which was responsible for the failed smartphone operating system Firefox OS and, more recently, attempts to build the OS into devices like routers, streaming boxes, and even basic computers.</li><li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mozilla acquired Pocket</a> — Pocket will join Mozilla’s product portfolio as a new product line alongside the Firefox web browsers with a focus on promoting the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content.</li><li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/20/firefox-focus-new-to-android-blocks-annoying-ads-and-protects-your-privacy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Launched Firefox Focus</a> — Firefox Focus allows you to browse the web without being followed by tracking ads which are notoriously known for slowing down your mobile experience.</li><li><a href="https://voice.mozilla.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Project Common Voice</a> — Voice is natural, voice is human. That’s why we’re fascinated with creating usable voice technology for our machines. But to create voice systems, an extremely large amount of voice data is required.</li><li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox-quantum/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox Quantum</a> — It’s by far the biggest update we’ve had since we launched Firefox 1.0 in 2004</li><li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/12/05/mozilla-files-cross-complaint-against-yahoo-holdings-and-oath/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Faced a lawsuit over their Yahoo deal</a> — We recently exercised our contractual right to terminate our agreement with Yahoo based on a number of factors including doing what’s best for our brand, our effort to provide quality web search, and the broader content experience for our users.</li></ul>

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Another project breach raises significant questions, Fedora considers dropping Snaps in Gnome Software, and has the ISPA let Mozilla off the hook? Plus Microsoft makes it into linux-distros, the Raspberry Pi 4 charger issue, and more.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Server breach at Pale Moon project goes undetected for 18 months — Server breach at Pale Moon browser project goes undetected for 18 months.Data breach post-mortemFirefox addons outage post mortem — Sorry this took so long to get out; we’d hoped to have this out within a week, but obviously that didn’t happen. There was just a lot more digging to do than we expected. In any case, we’re now ready to share the results.ISPA withdraws Mozilla Internet Villain Nomination and Category — In the 21 years the event has been running it is probably fair to say that no other nomination has generated such strong opinion.Firefox 68 ReleasedMicrosoft admitted to linux-distros list — I see no valid reasons not to subscribe Microsoft (or part(s) of it, see below) to linux-distros. The only voiced reasons not to, such as in Georgi Guninski's posting and in comments on some technology news sites that covered Microsoft's request, are irrelevant per our currently specified membership criteria.On Microsoft request to access private linux bugsRaspberry Pi 4 USB-C issues confirmed — The Pi's co-creator Eben Upton says that not every USB-C cable will power the Pi.IBM Red Hat deal closes — IBM and Red Hat announced today that they have closed the transaction under which IBM acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total equity value of approximately $34 billion.Mathew Miller's commentsFedora to drop snap plugin in gnome-software — In Fedora 31 I'll be disabling the snap plugin from GNOME Software.Drop snap support (!253) · Merge Requests · GNOMECanonical’s Robert Ancell calls the merge request “premature”Remove GsAuth support. (!255) · Merge Requests — This used to be used in the Snap and Ubuntu Reviews plugins, but is now no longer required. The remaining usage in the Snap plugin is not a common case on desktop and not necessary to support anymore.

Another project breach raises significant questions, Fedora considers dropping Snaps in Gnome Software, and has the ISPA let Mozilla off the hook? Plus Microsoft makes it into linux-distros, the Raspberry Pi 4 charger issue, and more.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/pale-moon-says-hackers-added-malware-to-older-browser-versions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Server breach at Pale Moon project goes undetected for 18 months</a> — Server breach at Pale Moon browser project goes undetected for 18 months.</li><li><a href="https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&amp;t=22526" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Data breach post-mortem</a></li><li><a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/07/add-ons-outage-post-mortem-result/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox addons outage post mortem</a> — Sorry this took so long to get out; we’d hoped to have this out within a week, but obviously that didn’t happen. There was just a lot more digging to do than we expected. In any case, we’re now ready to share the results.</li><li><a href="https://www.ispa.org.uk/ispa-withdraws-mozilla-internet-villain-nomination-and-category/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ISPA withdraws Mozilla Internet Villain Nomination and Category</a> — In the 21 years the event has been running it is probably fair to say that no other nomination has generated such strong opinion.</li><li><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0/releasenotes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox 68 Released</a></li><li><a href="https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/06/3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft admitted to linux-distros list</a> — I see no valid reasons not to subscribe Microsoft (or part(s) of it, see below) to linux-distros. The only voiced reasons not to, such as in Georgi Guninski's posting and in comments on some technology news sites that covered Microsoft's request, are irrelevant per our currently specified membership criteria.</li><li><a href="https://j.ludost.net/blog/archives/2019/07/06/on_microsoft_request_to_access_private_linux_bugs/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">On Microsoft request to access private linux bugs</a></li><li><a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/article/your-new-raspberry-pi-4-wont-power-on-usb-c-cable-problem-now-officially-confirmed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Raspberry Pi 4 USB-C issues confirmed</a> — The Pi's co-creator Eben Upton says that not every USB-C cable will power the Pi.</li><li><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IBM Red Hat deal closes</a> — IBM and Red Hat announced today that they have closed the transaction under which IBM acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total equity value of approximately $34 billion.</li><li><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/793189/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mathew Miller's comments</a></li><li><a href="https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/O4CMUKPHMMJ5W7OPZN2E7BYTVZWCRQHU/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora to drop snap plugin in gnome-software</a> — In Fedora 31 I'll be disabling the snap plugin from GNOME Software.</li><li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/merge_requests/253" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drop snap support (!253) · Merge Requests · GNOME</a></li><li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/merge_requests/253#note_550780" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canonical’s Robert Ancell calls the merge request “premature”</a></li><li><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/merge_requests/255" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Remove GsAuth support. (!255) · Merge Requests</a> — This used to be used in the Snap and Ubuntu Reviews plugins, but is now no longer required. The remaining usage in the Snap plugin is not a common case on desktop and not necessary to support anymore.</li></ul>

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Another fork is brewing, Microsoft hands over their patents of mass destruction leaving us with a few questions, and the best features of the new Plasma release. Plus Google's new Linux hardware, Flatpaks have met their critic, and more. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Ubuntu Touch OTA 5 released — While many have already joined the community on 16.04 with OTA-4, in addition to the long-term support of upstream Ubuntu development, OTA-5 will include a more stable experience, new tweaks, and new features to show off this next stage of Ubuntu Touch development.Plasma 5.14 released — A lot of work has gone into improving Discover, Plasma's software manager, and, among other things, we have added a Firmware Update feature and many subtle user interface improvements to give it a smoother feel. We have also rewritten many effects in our window manager KWin and improved it for slicker animations in your work day. Other improvements we have made include a new Display Configuration widget which is useful when giving presentations.User Error Episode 50: Understand The Hype — It seems to be all about Plasma these days so we want to know if the hype is justified. Website criticises Flatpaks — To make matters worse, the users are misled to believe the apps run sandboxed. For all these apps flatpak shows a reassuring "sandbox" icon when installing the appRedis modules forked — Redis put some of the program's code under the anti-open-source Common Clause license. Now, developers are counterattacking by forking the code.Microsoft joins OIN — Joining OIN reflects Microsoft’s patent practice evolving in lock-step with the company’s views on Linux and open source more generally.ChromeOS tablet launched — The Pixel Slate is a Chrome OS tablet with a detachable keyboard cover that turns it into something very closely resembling a laptop.Restyling apps at scale

Another fork is brewing, Microsoft hands over their patents of mass destruction leaving us with a few questions, and the best features of the new Plasma release. Plus Google's new Linux hardware, Flatpaks have met their critic, and more. <a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-5-174" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu Touch OTA 5 released</a> — While many have already joined the community on 16.04 with OTA-4, in addition to the long-term support of upstream Ubuntu development, OTA-5 will include a more stable experience, new tweaks, and new features to show off this next stage of Ubuntu Touch development.</li><li><a href="https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.14.0.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Plasma 5.14 released</a> — A lot of work has gone into improving Discover, Plasma's software manager, and, among other things, we have added a Firmware Update feature and many subtle user interface improvements to give it a smoother feel. We have also rewritten many effects in our window manager KWin and improved it for slicker animations in your work day. Other improvements we have made include a new Display Configuration widget which is useful when giving presentations.</li><li><a href="https://error.show/50" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">User Error Episode 50: Understand The Hype</a> — It seems to be all about Plasma these days so we want to know if the hype is justified. </li><li><a href="https://flatkill.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website criticises Flatpaks</a> — To make matters worse, the users are misled to believe the apps run sandboxed. For all these apps flatpak shows a reassuring "sandbox" icon when installing the app</li><li><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/redis-labs-and-common-clause-attacked-where-it-hurts-with-open-source-code/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Redis modules forked</a> — Redis put some of the program's code under the anti-open-source Common Clause license. Now, developers are counterattacking by forking the code.</li><li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-open-invention-network-to-help-protect-linux-and-open-source/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft joins OIN</a> — Joining OIN reflects Microsoft’s patent practice evolving in lock-step with the company’s views on Linux and open source more generally.</li><li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/9/17940770/google-pixel-slate-tablet-announcement-price-release-date-specs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ChromeOS tablet launched</a> — The Pixel Slate is a Chrome OS tablet with a detachable keyboard cover that turns it into something very closely resembling a laptop.</li><li><a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-at-scale/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Restyling apps at scale</a></li></ul>

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With Chris away, Ryan joins Joe. A new release for Fedora, Yunit is now available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu is now an app in the Windows Store, Ryan gives us more details about System76's new OS, Ikey starts his new job at Solus and Beaker is a new browser that promises a truly decentralized web.Special Guest: Ryan Sipes.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Fedora 26 is here! - Fedora Magazine — What’s new in Fedora 26?First, of course, we have thousands of improvements from the various upstream software we integrate, including new development tools like GCC 7, Golang 1.8, and Python 3.6. We’ve added a new partitioning tool to Anaconda (the Fedora installer) — the existing workflow is great for non-experts, but this option will be appreciated by enthusiasts and sysadmins who like to build up their storage scheme from basic building blocks. F26 also has many under-the-hood improvements, like better caching of user and group info and better handling of debug information. And the DNF package manager is at a new major version (2.5), bringing many new features.Fedora 27 Might Do Away With 32-Bit Kernel Builds - Phoronix — A controversial change being considered for Fedora 27 is doing away with the i686 kernel build thereby effectively dropping support for older x86 32-bit systems.Yunit packages for ubuntu 16.04 LTS – yunit — We are pleased to announce that Yunit is now available as an overlay repository for ubuntu 16.04 LTS xenial (64bit).The following have been tested and should work with an existing ubuntu 16.04, ubuntu gnome 16.04, lubuntu 16.04 and xubuntu 16.04 installation.They will not work in either kubuntu 16.04 or ubuntu mate 16.04 due to the updated Qt libraries,Windows 10 loves Ubuntu | Ubuntu Insights — Ubuntu 16.04 is now available as an app from the Windows Store for users running Windows Insider builds. The newly improved app is created by Canonical in collaboration with the Microsoft WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) team as a result of the work announced at Microsoft Build 2017 ConferenceFirst day! | Solus on Patreon — Well, we're here! Today is officially my first day working full time on Solus. And it's thanks to YOU, supporters of Solus, for making this possible!System76 Blog — Pop!_OS Updates — CalDav and CardDav work continues. The deeper we’ve dug the more hard coding we’ve found.We’re considering writing a new installer for GNOME and any DE that features user setup separate from OS installation. The further we went down the Ubiquity path, the more it seemed over-complicated.Automated firmware updates are coming to System76 laptops. With this feature, the System76 Driver will prompt that there’s an update available. Running the update will reboot your computer, install the firmware, and take you back to login.A New Browser Is Making Peer-to-Peer Web Hosting More User-Friendly - Motherboard — Billed as a "peer-to-peer web browser," the idea behind Beaker is to provide a simple way to build and host websites directly from the browser, which can then be visited by other users of the browser without the need for any intermediary hosting providers.

With Chris away, Ryan joins Joe. A new release for Fedora, Yunit is now available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu is now an app in the Windows Store, Ryan gives us more details about System76's new OS, Ikey starts his new job at Solus and Beaker is a new browser that promises a truly decentralized web.Special Guest: Ryan Sipes.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-26-is-here/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora 26 is here! - Fedora Magazine</a> — What’s new in Fedora 26? First, of course, we have thousands of improvements from the various upstream software we integrate, including new development tools like GCC 7, Golang 1.8, and Python 3.6. We’ve added a new partitioning tool to Anaconda (the Fedora installer) — the existing workflow is great for non-experts, but this option will be appreciated by enthusiasts and sysadmins who like to build up their storage scheme from basic building blocks. F26 also has many under-the-hood improvements, like better caching of user and group info and better handling of debug information. And the DNF package manager is at a new major version (2.5), bringing many new features.</li><li><a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Fedora-27-Might-Drop-i686-Kern" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora 27 Might Do Away With 32-Bit Kernel Builds - Phoronix</a> — A controversial change being considered for Fedora 27 is doing away with the i686 kernel build thereby effectively dropping support for older x86 32-bit systems.</li><li><a href="https://yunit.io/yunit-packages-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts-xenial/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yunit packages for ubuntu 16.04 LTS – yunit</a> — We are pleased to announce that Yunit is now available as an overlay repository for ubuntu 16.04 LTS xenial (64bit). The following have been tested and should work with an existing ubuntu 16.04, ubuntu gnome 16.04, lubuntu 16.04 and xubuntu 16.04 installation. They will not work in either kubuntu 16.04 or ubuntu mate 16.04 due to the updated Qt libraries,</li><li><a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/07/11/windows-10-loves-ubuntu-loveislove/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Windows 10 loves Ubuntu | Ubuntu Insights</a> — Ubuntu 16.04 is now available as an app from the Windows Store for users running Windows Insider builds. The newly improved app is created by Canonical in collaboration with the Microsoft WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) team as a result of the work announced at Microsoft Build 2017 Conference</li><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/12936236" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">First day! | Solus on Patreon</a> — Well, we're here! Today is officially my first day working full time on Solus. And it's thanks to YOU, supporters of Solus, for making this possible!</li><li><a href="http://blog.system76.com/post/162983921683/popos-updates" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">System76 Blog — Pop!_OS Updates</a> — CalDav and CardDav work continues. The deeper we’ve dug the more hard coding we’ve found. We’re considering writing a new installer for GNOME and any DE that features user setup separate from OS installation. The further we went down the Ubiquity path, the more it seemed over-complicated. Automated firmware updates are coming to System76 laptops. With this feature, the System76 Driver will prompt that there’s an update available. Running the update will reboot your computer, install the firmware, and take you back to login.</li><li><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxy9d/a-new-browser-is-making-peer-to-peer-web-hosting-more-user-friendly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A New Browser Is Making Peer-to-Peer Web Hosting More User-Friendly - Motherboard</a> — Billed as a "peer-to-peer web browser," the idea behind Beaker is to provide a simple way to build and host websites directly from the browser, which can then be visited by other users of the browser without the need for any intermediary hosting providers.</li></ul>

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A major open source milestone, some OnePlus users compromised, Google switches to Debian, and we have Spectre and Meltdown updates.  Plus what happened to NHoS, and more!Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Wine 3.0 Released —  This includes in particular Direct3D 12 and Vulkan support, as well as OpenGL ES support to enable Direct3D on Android.Oneplus pwned — One of our systems was attacked, and a malicious script was injected into the payment page code to sniff out credit card info while it was being entered.​Google moves to Debian for in-house Linux desktop — Google has officially confirmed the company is shifting its in-house Linux desktop from the Ubuntu-based Goobuntu to a new Linux distro, the DebianTesting-based gLinux.Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status — Some “enterprise” distributions did not backport the changes for this reporting, so if you are running one of those types of kernels, go bug the vendor to fix that, you really want a unified way of knowing the state of your system.Red Hat pulls microcode update — Which, er, sounds like Red Hat has given up and, to avoid any blame, has told its customers to just get whatever firmware your CPU maker is offering. And if it works, it works, and if it makes your box fall over, uh, don't look at Red Hat. Red Hat: We Didn't Pull CPU Microcode Update — "It's actually an encrypted, signed binary image, so we don't have the capability, even if we wanted to produce microcode. It's a binary blob that we cannot generate. The only people who can actually generate that are the CPU vendors."Ubuntu almost ready to patch against Spectre — This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753 (ie, Spectre / Variants 1 &amp; 2) to their respective -proposed pockets for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful), 16.04 LTS (Xenial), and 14.04 LTS (Trusty).  Skyfall and Solace: Meltdown and Spectre are just the beginning — Skyfall and Solace are two speculative attacks based on the work highlighted by Meltdown and Spectre.Full details are still under embargo and will be published soon when chip manufacturers and Operating System vendors have prepared patches.NHoS shut down — The small team behind an ambitious NHoS Linux project are calling it a day, citing receipt of a trademark infringement warning from the UK Department of Health's (DoH) "brand police" as the "final straw."

A major open source milestone, some OnePlus users compromised, Google switches to Debian, and we have Spectre and Meltdown updates. Plus what happened to NHoS, and more!<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.winehq.org/news/2018011801" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wine 3.0 Released</a> — This includes in particular Direct3D 12 and Vulkan support, as well as OpenGL ES support to enable Direct3D on Android. </li><li><a href="https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/jan-19-update-an-update-on-credit-card-security.752415/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Oneplus pwned</a> — One of our systems was attacked, and a malicious script was injected into the payment page code to sniff out credit card info while it was being entered.</li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-house-linux-desktop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">​Google moves to Debian for in-house Linux desktop</a> — Google has officially confirmed the company is shifting its in-house Linux desktop from the Ubuntu-based Goobuntu to a new Linux distro, the DebianTesting-based gLinux.</li><li><a href="http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/01/19/meltdown-status-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status</a> — Some “enterprise” distributions did not backport the changes for this reporting, so if you are running one of those types of kernels, go bug the vendor to fix that, you really want a unified way of knowing the state of your system.</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/18/red_hat_spectre_firmware_update_woes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat pulls microcode update</a> — Which, er, sounds like Red Hat has given up and, to avoid any blame, has told its customers to just get whatever firmware your CPU maker is offering. And if it works, it works, and if it makes your box fall over, uh, don't look at Red Hat. </li><li><a href="http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/security/red-hat-we-didnt-pull-cpu-microcode-update-pass-buck" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat: We Didn't Pull CPU Microcode Update</a> — "It's actually an encrypted, signed binary image, so we don't have the capability, even if we wanted to produce microcode. It's a binary blob that we cannot generate. The only people who can actually generate that are the CPU vendors."</li><li><a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/01/17/spectre-mitigation-updates-available-for-testing-in-ubuntu-proposed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu almost ready to patch against Spectre</a> — This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753 (ie, Spectre / Variants 1 &amp; 2) to their respective -proposed pockets for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful), 16.04 LTS (Xenial), and 14.04 LTS (Trusty).  </li><li><a href="https://skyfallattack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Skyfall and Solace: Meltdown and Spectre are just the beginning</a> — Skyfall and Solace are two speculative attacks based on the work highlighted by Meltdown and Spectre. Full details are still under embargo and will be published soon when chip manufacturers and Operating System vendors have prepared patches.</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/18/nhs_buntu_trademark_cease_and_desist/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NHoS shut down</a> — The small team behind an ambitious NHoS Linux project are calling it a day, citing receipt of a trademark infringement warning from the UK Department of Health's (DoH) "brand police" as the "final straw."</li></ul>

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Ubuntu 19.04 is released we share our take, OpenSSH has an important release, and Mozilla brings Python to the browser. Also WebThings is launched and we think it might have a shot.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Ubuntu 19.04 'Disco Dingo' Released — Improved performance is what defines the ‘Disco Dingo’Open infrastructure, developers and IoT are 19.04's focus — Ubuntu 19.04 integrates recent innovations from key open infrastructure projects – like OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph – with advanced life-cycle management for multi-cloud and on-prem operations – from bare metal, VMware and OpenStack to every major public cloud.Ubuntu 19.04 Flavours Available to DownloadIntroducing Mozilla WebThings — Project Things is graduating from its early experimental phase and from now on will be known as Mozilla WebThings.WebThings DocumentationPyodide — Pyodide is an experimental project from Mozilla to create a full Python data science stack that runs entirely in the browser.OpenSSH 8.0 released — This release contains mitigation for a weakness in the scp(1) tool and protocol (CVE-2019-6111).Presenting search app and browser options to Android users in Europe — Following the changes we made to comply with the European Commission's ruling last year, we’ll start presenting new screens to Android users in Europe with an option to download search apps and browsers.  

Ubuntu 19.04 is released we share our take, OpenSSH has an important release, and Mozilla brings Python to the browser. Also WebThings is launched and we think it might have a shot.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/ubuntu-19-04-release-features" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 19.04 'Disco Dingo' Released</a> — Improved performance is what defines the ‘Disco Dingo’</li><li><a href="https://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/04/18/open-infrastructure-developer-desktop-and-iot-are-the-focus-for-ubuntu-19-04" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Open infrastructure, developers and IoT are 19.04's focus</a> — Ubuntu 19.04 integrates recent innovations from key open infrastructure projects – like OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph – with advanced life-cycle management for multi-cloud and on-prem operations – from bare metal, VMware and OpenStack to every major public cloud.</li><li><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/ubuntu-19-04-flavours-whats-new" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 19.04 Flavours Available to Download</a></li><li><a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthings/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Introducing Mozilla WebThings</a> — Project Things is graduating from its early experimental phase and from now on will be known as Mozilla WebThings.</li><li><a href="https://iot.mozilla.org/docs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WebThings Documentation</a></li><li><a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scientific-python-stack-to-the-browser/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pyodide</a> — Pyodide is an experimental project from Mozilla to create a full Python data science stack that runs entirely in the browser.</li><li><a href="https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2019-April/000136.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenSSH 8.0 released</a> — This release contains mitigation for a weakness in the scp(1) tool and protocol (CVE-2019-6111).</li><li><a href="https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/presenting-search-app-and-browser-options-android-users-europe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Presenting search app and browser options to Android users in Europe</a> — Following the changes we made to comply with the European Commission's ruling last year, we’ll start presenting new screens to Android users in Europe with an option to download search apps and browsers.  </li></ul>

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We go hands-on with the big Xfce release that took four years and five months to develop. Kubernetes gets an audit that might just set a precedent, and Google has a new feature for AMP that has us all worked up.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Xfce 4.14 released — After 4 years and 5 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.14, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.12.Xubuntu DailyOpen Sourcing the Kubernetes Security Audit — The group created an open request for proposals, taking responsibility for evaluating the submitted proposals and recommending the vendor best suited to complete a security assessment against Kubernetes, bearing in mind the high complexity and wide scope of the project. wg-security-audit at master · kubernetes/community · GitHubSomeone audited the Kubernetes sourceServer-side rendering for AMP — AMP now officially supports a technique called server-side rendering (SSR) which you can apply to your AMP pages to make them load even faster. Our tests show increases of up to a whopping 50% on the popular FCP metric.OSdisc.com Has Closed — In just the past couple days, a very popular Linux OS supply site has closed. 

We go hands-on with the big Xfce release that took four years and five months to develop. Kubernetes gets an audit that might just set a precedent, and Google has a new feature for AMP that has us all worked up.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1565568000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xfce 4.14 released</a> — After 4 years and 5 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.14, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.12.</li><li><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-live/current/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xubuntu Daily</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/08/06/open-sourcing-the-kubernetes-security-audit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Open Sourcing the Kubernetes Security Audit</a> — The group created an open request for proposals, taking responsibility for evaluating the submitted proposals and recommending the vendor best suited to complete a security assessment against Kubernetes, bearing in mind the high complexity and wide scope of the project. </li><li><a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/wg-security-audit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wg-security-audit at master · kubernetes/community · GitHub</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/06/kubernetes_security_audit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Someone audited the Kubernetes source</a></li><li><a href="https://blog.amp.dev/2019/08/07/faster-amp-on-the-origin-amp-ssr/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Server-side rendering for AMP</a> — AMP now officially supports a technique called server-side rendering (SSR) which you can apply to your AMP pages to make them load even faster. Our tests show increases of up to a whopping 50% on the popular FCP metric.</li><li><a href="https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/osdisc-com-has-closed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OSdisc.com Has Closed</a> — In just the past couple days, a very popular Linux OS supply site has closed. </li></ul>

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Google's important news this week, why Linux is fueling PowerShell Growth, and the Matrix breach that might be worse than it sounds. Plus more good work by Mozilla, and the Chinese crackdown on Bitcoin mining.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:The 6 most important announcements from Google Cloud Next 2019 — Anthos is the new name of the Google Cloud Services Platform, Google’s managed service for allowing enterprises to run applications in their private data center and in Google’s cloud. PowerShell growth fueled by Linux use — PowerShell Core usage has grown significantly in the last two years. In particular, the bulk of our growth has come from Linux usageTeaching machines to triage Firefox bugsMozilla still on track to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in FirefoxProtections Against Fingerprinting and Cryptocurrency Mining Available in Firefox Nightly and BetaMatrix suffers security breach — An attacker gained access to the servers hosting Matrix.org. The intruder had access to the production databases, potentially giving them access to unencrypted message data, password hashes and access tokens. Archive of deleted GitHub Issues lodged by the hackerChinese government proposes ban on bitcoin mining — A Chinese ban on cryptocurrency mining would be a huge deal for the global bitcoin community. 

Google's important news this week, why Linux is fueling PowerShell Growth, and the Matrix breach that might be worse than it sounds. Plus more good work by Mozilla, and the Chinese crackdown on Bitcoin mining.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/the-6-most-important-announcements-from-google-cloud-next-2019/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The 6 most important announcements from Google Cloud Next 2019</a> — Anthos is the new name of the Google Cloud Services Platform, Google’s managed service for allowing enterprises to run applications in their private data center and in Google’s cloud. </li><li><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/the-next-release-of-powershell-powershell-7/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PowerShell growth fueled by Linux use</a> — PowerShell Core usage has grown significantly in the last two years. In particular, the bulk of our growth has come from Linux usage</li><li><a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/teaching-machines-to-triage-firefox-bugs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Teaching machines to triage Firefox bugs</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ghacks.net/2019/04/10/mozilla-still-on-track-to-enable-dns-over-https-by-default-in-firefox/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mozilla still on track to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in Firefox</a></li><li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protections-against-fingerprinting-and-cryptocurrency-mining-available-in-firefox-nightly-and-beta/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Protections Against Fingerprinting and Cryptocurrency Mining Available in Firefox Nightly and Beta</a></li><li><a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2019/04/11/security-incident/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matrix suffers security breach</a> — An attacker gained access to the servers hosting <a href="http://Matrix.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matrix.org</a>. The intruder had access to the production databases, potentially giving them access to unencrypted message data, password hashes and access tokens. </li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190412081930/https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/issues" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive of deleted GitHub Issues lodged by the hacker</a></li><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/chinese-government-proposes-ban-on-bitcoin-mining/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chinese government proposes ban on bitcoin mining</a> — A Chinese ban on cryptocurrency mining would be a huge deal for the global bitcoin community. </li></ul>

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Nextcloud's new release is so big it gets a rebrand, why Mozilla had a round of lay-offs, and the real possibility of Steam coming to Chrome OS. Plus, the sad loss of a community member, and more.Support Linux Action NewsLinks: Peppermint project lead Mark Greaves has passed away. — His contributions to both Peppermint and to the desktop Linux world as a whole are incalculable and he will be sorely missed.Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue — Mozilla has a strong line of sight to future revenue generation, but we are taking a more conservative approach to our finances.Readying for the Future at MozillaDigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affectedNextcloud Hub Announced — New generation of leading content collaboration platform integrates office document editing and collaboration apps, introduces workflows, rich work spaces, file locking and moreNextcloud 18 ChangelogHuawei pitches its alternative to Google Play Store — Huawei Mobile Services wants to make a big splash in Europe, with thousands of apps already signed upHuawei Quick Apps is Huawei's alternative to Google Instant AppsExclusive: Google is working to bring official Steam support to Chrome OS — The Chrome team is working—very possibly in cooperation with Valve—to bring Steam to Chromebooks.

Nextcloud's new release is so big it gets a rebrand, why Mozilla had a round of lay-offs, and the real possibility of Steam coming to Chrome OS. Plus, the sad loss of a community member, and more.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://forum.peppermintos.com/index.php/topic,9283.msg93570.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Peppermint project lead Mark Greaves has passed away.</a> — His contributions to both Peppermint and to the desktop Linux world as a whole are incalculable and he will be sorely missed.</li><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/15/mozilla-lays-off-70-as-it-waits-for-subscription-products-to-generate-revenue/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue</a> — Mozilla has a strong line of sight to future revenue generation, but we are taking a more conservative approach to our finances.</li><li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/01/15/readying-for-the-future-at-mozilla/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Readying for the Future at Mozilla</a></li><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/17/digitalocean-layoffs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected</a></li><li><a href="https://nextcloud.com/blog/the-new-standard-in-on-premises-team-collaboration-nextcloud-hub/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nextcloud Hub Announced</a> — New generation of leading content collaboration platform integrates office document editing and collaboration apps, introduces workflows, rich work spaces, file locking and more</li><li><a href="https://nextcloud.com/changelog/#latest18" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nextcloud 18 Changelog</a></li><li><a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/huawei-pitches-its-alternative-to-google-play-store" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Huawei pitches its alternative to Google Play Store</a> — Huawei Mobile Services wants to make a big splash in Europe, with thousands of apps already signed up</li><li><a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/huawei-quick-apps-alternative-google-instant-apps/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Huawei Quick Apps is Huawei's alternative to Google Instant Apps</a></li><li><a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/17/exclusive-google-is-working-to-bring-steam-to-chrome-os/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exclusive: Google is working to bring official Steam support to Chrome OS</a> — The Chrome team is working—very possibly in cooperation with Valve—to bring Steam to Chromebooks.</li></ul>

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Mozilla's master strategy becomes clear, CockroachDB surrenders to the software as a service reality, while Microsoft and Oracle link up. Plus Google argues that keeping Huawei on their Android is better for all, and Chris gets sucked into Stadia.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default — At Firefox, we’re doing more than that. We believe that in order to truly protect people, we need to establish a new standard that puts people’s privacy first.Relicensing CockroachDB — But our past outlook on the right business model relied on a crucial norm in the OSS world: that companies could build a business around a strong open source core product without a much larger technology platform company coming along and offering the same product as a service. That norm no longer holds.   Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds — Microsoft  and Oracle  announced a new alliance today that will see the two companies directly connect their clouds over a direct network connection so that their users can then move workloads and data seamlessly between the two. Google is fighting to keep doing business with Huawei — Three sources told the Financial Times that Google's argument is that cutting ties with Huawei could pose a national security risk.Stadia details announced — Stadia games run on custom Linux-based server hardware maintained by Google, promising "10.7 teraflops of power in each instance." Game audio and video is streamed from those servers to a user's device, and inputs are streamed from the user to the server over a network of what Google says are "7,500 edge nodes" around the world.

Mozilla's master strategy becomes clear, CockroachDB surrenders to the software as a service reality, while Microsoft and Oracle link up. Plus Google argues that keeping Huawei on their Android is better for all, and Chris gets sucked into Stadia.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-available-with-enhanced-tracking-protection-by-default/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default</a> — At Firefox, we’re doing more than that. We believe that in order to truly protect people, we need to establish a new standard that puts people’s privacy first.</li><li><a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroachdb/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Relicensing CockroachDB</a> — But our past outlook on the right business model relied on a crucial norm in the OSS world: that companies could build a business around a strong open source core product without a much larger technology platform company coming along and offering the same product as a service. That norm no longer holds.   </li><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/05/microsoft-and-oracle-link-up-their-clouds/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds</a> — Microsoft and Oracle announced a new alliance today that will see the two companies directly connect their clouds over a direct network connection so that their users can then move workloads and data seamlessly between the two. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-is-fighting-to-keep-doing-business-with-huawei-2019-6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google is fighting to keep doing business with Huawei</a> — Three sources told the Financial Times that Google's argument is that cutting ties with Huawei could pose a national security risk.</li><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/06/google-stadia-requires-130-upfront-10-per-month-at-november-launch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stadia details announced</a> — Stadia games run on custom Linux-based server hardware maintained by Google, promising "10.7 teraflops of power in each instance." Game audio and video is streamed from those servers to a user's device, and inputs are streamed from the user to the server over a network of what Google says are "7,500 edge nodes" around the world.</li></ul>

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Are we overloaded with open source licenses? We consider a simpler future. Results from the Debian init vote are in, and why Amazon's new open source project might be worth checking out. Plus, our reaction to Google's search ballot scheme launch.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new data-sharing crypto license — Distributed app platform's proposed agreement 'isn't freedom respecting,' he saysDebian Developers Decide On Init System Diversity: "Proposal B" Wins — In recent months there has been lots of differing views over how much Debian should care about systemd alternatives some five years after they decided to move to systemd in the first place.Bing loses out to DuckDuckGo in Google’s new Android search engine ballot — Google will start offering EU users a choice for their default search engineUS Government-funded Android phones come preinstalled with unremovable malware — Phones were sold to low-income people under the FCC's Lifeline Assistance program.Google scolded for depriving the poor of privacy as Chinese malware bundled on phones for hard-up AmericansAmazon’s AutoGluon helps developers deploy deep learning models with just a few lines of code — AutoGluon democratizes machine learning, and makes the power of deep learning available to all developers.AutoGluon: Deep Learning AutoMLAutoGluon Documentation 0.0.1 documentation — Only Linux installation is supported for now (Mac OSX and Windows versions will be available soon). AutoGluon requires Python version 3.6 or 3.7.

Are we overloaded with open source licenses? We consider a simpler future. Results from the Debian init vote are in, and why Amazon's new open source project might be worth checking out. Plus, our reaction to Google's search ballot scheme launch.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/03/osi_cofounder_resigns/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new data-sharing crypto license</a> — Distributed app platform's proposed agreement 'isn't freedom respecting,' he says</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Debian-Devs-Vote-For-Prop-B" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Debian Developers Decide On Init System Diversity: "Proposal B" Wins</a> — In recent months there has been lots of differing views over how much Debian should care about systemd alternatives some five years after they decided to move to systemd in the first place.</li><li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/21058120/google-android-search-engine-choice-duckduckgo-bing-default-eu-antitrust-ruling" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bing loses out to DuckDuckGo in Google’s new Android search engine ballot</a> — Google will start offering EU users a choice for their default search engine</li><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/us-government-funded-android-phones-come-preinstalled-with-unremovable-malware/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">US Government-funded Android phones come preinstalled with unremovable malware</a> — Phones were sold to low-income people under the FCC's Lifeline Assistance program.</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/09/google_poor_privacy_android/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google scolded for depriving the poor of privacy as Chinese malware bundled on phones for hard-up Americans</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.science/amazons-autogluon-helps-developers-get-up-and-running-with-state-of-the-art-deep-learning-models-with-just-a-few-lines-of-code" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon’s AutoGluon helps developers deploy deep learning models with just a few lines of code</a> — AutoGluon democratizes machine learning, and makes the power of deep learning available to all developers.</li><li><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/autogluon-deep-learning-automl-5cdb4e2388ec" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AutoGluon: Deep Learning AutoML</a></li><li><a href="https://autogluon.mxnet.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AutoGluon Documentation 0.0.1 documentation</a> — Only Linux installation is supported for now (Mac OSX and Windows versions will be available soon). AutoGluon requires Python version 3.6 or 3.7.</li></ul>

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Two Linux desktop classics make big strides, Coreboot joins the Conservancy, and Toyota cars will soon run Linux. Plus newly announced Ambient OS will be open source, just like Android, and its creator Andy Rubin says they plan to take on the Amazon Echo and Google Pixel.  This is is an episode about playing to your strengths, and taking over markets.Sponsored By:Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Plasma 5.10 Released — Simple by default, powerful when needed.Xfce 4.14 edges closer (along with GTK 3) — Xfce 4.14 is a transitionnal release, where the main goal is to port all components to GTK+3.Fedora 26 delayed — This latest delay pushes Fedora 26 final out to 11 July, assuming no further delays this release cycle.Coreboot joins Conservancy — "By joining Conservancy, coreboot benefits from their project and community organization skills,"Toyota to use Linux in its cars — The Linux Foundation's Automotive Grade Linux project is celebrating its first big-name user, after Toyota said it will employ the OS in the 2018 Camry model it will sell in the United States.ChrisLAS: "@autogradelinux Is it possible for car manufactures to use AGL and also offer Android Auto or Apple CarPlay on top?"2017 CES Demonstrator - [Automotive Linux Wiki] — Hardware spec for AGL demo machine at CES 2017.Essential’s Ambient OS will be open source — Playground CEO Andy Rubin, whose new company Essential unveiled a new premium Android smartphone and Amazon Echo competitor today, says his company’s Ambient OS smart home platform will be open source.Essential faces trademark dispute over name  — Spigen, Inc. successfully registered the trademark (Reg. No. 5014095) as early as August 2016. It's an International Class. 9 mark, the category which relates to computers and scientific devices, including smartphones and accessories. 

Two Linux desktop classics make big strides, Coreboot joins the Conservancy, and Toyota cars will soon run Linux. Plus newly announced Ambient OS will be open source, just like Android, and its creator Andy Rubin says they plan to take on the Amazon Echo and Google Pixel. This is is an episode about playing to your strengths, and taking over markets.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://linux.ting.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ting</a>: <a href="https://linux.ting.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!</a></li></ul><a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.10.0.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Plasma 5.10 Released</a> — Simple by default, powerful when needed.</li><li><a href="http://blog.alteroot.org/articles/2017-05-30/road-to-xfce-4.14-part-2.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xfce 4.14 edges closer (along with GTK 3)</a> — Xfce 4.14 is a transitionnal release, where the main goal is to port all components to GTK+3.</li><li><a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Fedora-26-Beta-Delay-2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora 26 delayed</a> — This latest delay pushes Fedora 26 final out to 11 July, assuming no further delays this release cycle.</li><li><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2017/jun/01/coreboot-joins/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coreboot joins Conservancy</a> — "By joining Conservancy, coreboot benefits from their project and community organization skills,"</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/02/toyota_camry_to_run_automotive_linux/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Toyota to use Linux in its cars</a> — The Linux Foundation's Automotive Grade Linux project is celebrating its first big-name user, after Toyota said it will employ the OS in the 2018 Camry model it will sell in the United States.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisLAS/status/871410922752888832" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ChrisLAS: "@autogradelinux Is it possible for car manufactures to use AGL and also offer Android Auto or Apple CarPlay on top?"</a></li><li><a href="https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/ces-2017-demo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2017 CES Demonstrator - [Automotive Linux Wiki]</a> — Hardware spec for AGL demo machine at CES 2017.</li><li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/15716916/ambient-os-open-source-andy-rubin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Essential’s Ambient OS will be open source</a> — Playground CEO Andy Rubin, whose new company Essential unveiled a new premium Android smartphone and Amazon Echo competitor today, says his company’s Ambient OS smart home platform will be open source.</li><li><a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/06/02/spigen-accuses-andy-rubins-company-essential-products-trademark-infringement-essential-responds-%F0%9F%96%95%E0%B2%A0_%E0%B2%A0%F0%9F%96%95/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Essential faces trademark dispute over name </a> — Spigen, Inc. successfully registered the trademark (Reg. No. 5014095) as early as August 2016. It's an International Class. 9 mark, the category which relates to computers and scientific devices, including smartphones and accessories. </li></ul>

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Google steps up support for older Chromebooks, Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux, and the App Defense Alliance teams up to fight Android malware. Plus Google Cardboard goes open source, and a neat machine-learning tool to pull songs apart.Special Guest: Wes Payne.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support — Seven Chromebooks from Lenovo recently had their support lifespan extended, and now Google has updated the EOL date for 135 more models from several manufacturers. Most models received another year of support, others only got another six months, and some now have two more years.What’s new in Chrome OS: Virtual Desks, simpler printing and more — Think of Virtual Desks as separate workspaces within your Chromebook. Use this feature to create helpful boundaries between projects or activities. If you’re working on multiple projects, you can dedicate a desk to each one. Open Overview and tap New Desk in the top right-hand corner of your screen to try out Virtual Desks.Google Enlists Outside Help to Clean Up Android's Malware Mess — Today Google is announcing a partnership with three antivirus firms—ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium—to create an App Defense Alliance.Open sourcing Google Cardboard — Today, we’re releasing the Cardboard open source project to let the developer community continue to build Cardboard experiences and add support to their apps for an ever increasing diversity of smartphone screen resolutions and configurations.Access ESM, now free to the community, via the updated Ubuntu Advantage client — Canonical is happy to announce that all community users are entitled to a free Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure account for access to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and Kernel Livepatch* for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) for up to three machines, and up to 50 machines for all official Ubuntu Members. Releasing Spleeter: Deezer Research source separation engine — We are releasing Spleeter to help the research community in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) leverage the power of a state-of-the-art source separation algorithm. It comes in the form of a Python Library based on Tensorflow, with pretrained models for 2, 4 and 5 stems separation. Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux — Microsoft announced at their Ignite conference in Seattle that their Edge web-browser will see a Linux release

Google steps up support for older Chromebooks, Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux, and the App Defense Alliance teams up to fight Android malware. Plus Google Cardboard goes open source, and a neat machine-learning tool to pull songs apart.Special Guest: Wes Payne.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/11/05/google-gives-most-chromebooks-an-extra-year-of-software-support/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support</a> — Seven Chromebooks from Lenovo recently had their support lifespan extended, and now Google has updated the EOL date for 135 more models from several manufacturers. Most models received another year of support, others only got another six months, and some now have two more years. </li><li><a href="https://www.blog.google/products/chromebooks/whats-new-november2019/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What’s new in Chrome OS: Virtual Desks, simpler printing and more</a> — Think of Virtual Desks as separate workspaces within your Chromebook. Use this feature to create helpful boundaries between projects or activities. If you’re working on multiple projects, you can dedicate a desk to each one. Open Overview and tap New Desk in the top right-hand corner of your screen to try out Virtual Desks.</li><li><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/android-malware-app-defense-alliance/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Enlists Outside Help to Clean Up Android's Malware Mess</a> — Today Google is announcing a partnership with three antivirus firms—ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium—to create an App Defense Alliance. </li><li><a href="https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/11/open-sourcing-google-cardboard.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Open sourcing Google Cardboard</a> — Today, we’re releasing the Cardboard open source project to let the developer community continue to build Cardboard experiences and add support to their apps for an ever increasing diversity of smartphone screen resolutions and configurations.</li><li><a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/ua-services-deployed-from-the-command-line-with-ua-client" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Access ESM, now free to the community, via the updated Ubuntu Advantage client</a> — Canonical is happy to announce that all community users are entitled to a free Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure account for access to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and Kernel Livepatch* for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) for up to three machines, and up to 50 machines for all official Ubuntu Members. </li><li><a href="https://deezer.io/releasing-spleeter-deezer-r-d-source-separation-engine-2b88985e797e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Releasing Spleeter: Deezer Research source separation engine</a> — We are releasing Spleeter to help the research community in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) leverage the power of a state-of-the-art source separation algorithm. It comes in the form of a Python Library based on Tensorflow, with pretrained models for 2, 4 and 5 stems separation. </li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Microsoft-Edge-Linux-2020" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux</a> — Microsoft announced at their Ignite conference in Seattle that their Edge web-browser will see a Linux release </li></ul>

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Fedora arrives from the future, the big players line up behind KernelCI, and researchers claim significant vulnerabilities in Horde. Plus, Google's new dashboard for WordPress and ProtonMail's apps go open source.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Fedora 31 is officially here! —  This release features GNOME 3.34, which brings significant performance enhancements which will be especially noticeable on lower-powered hardware.Fedora Server brings the latest in cutting-edge open source server software to systems administrators in an easy-to-deploy fashion.Fedora 31 Performance Is Still Sliding In The Wrong DirectionDistributed Linux Testing Platform KernelCI Secures Funding and Long-Term Sustainability — "Testing is traditionally done only on the most common hardware. But because Linux runs on more hardware than any other operating system, it's important to also test it on all that hardware. The Linux Foundation's support is enabling us to expand the great work we started five years ago and sets us up for a bright future with a growing community," Hackers can steal the contents of Horde webmail inboxes with one click — Horde is one of the most popular free and open-source web email systems available. It’s built and maintained by a core team of developers, with contributions from the wider open-source community. It’s used by universities, libraries and many web hosting providers as the default email client.Horde Webmail - XSS + CSRF to SQLi, RCE, Stealing Emails &lt;= v5.2.22 — Horde Webmail - XSS + CSRF to SQLi, RCE, Stealing Emails &lt;= v5.2.22ProtonMail iOS app is open source - ProtonMail Blog — As part of our commitment to security, we are putting all of our software through rigorous, independent third-party audits.Android App SoonSite Kit is now available for all WordPress sites — Site Kit is Google’s official WordPress plugin 

Fedora arrives from the future, the big players line up behind KernelCI, and researchers claim significant vulnerabilities in Horde. Plus, Google's new dashboard for WordPress and ProtonMail's apps go open source.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-31/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora 31 is officially here!</a> — This release features GNOME 3.34, which brings significant performance enhancements which will be especially noticeable on lower-powered hardware. Fedora Server brings the latest in cutting-edge open source server software to systems administrators in an easy-to-deploy fashion.</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=fedora-31-benchmarks&amp;num=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora 31 Performance Is Still Sliding In The Wrong Direction</a></li><li><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/distributed-linux-testing-platform-kernelci-secures-funding-and-long-term-sustainability-as-new-linux-foundation-project-300945978.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distributed Linux Testing Platform KernelCI Secures Funding and Long-Term Sustainability</a> — "Testing is traditionally done only on the most common hardware. But because Linux runs on more hardware than any other operating system, it's important to also test it on all that hardware. The Linux Foundation's support is enabling us to expand the great work we started five years ago and sets us up for a bright future with a growing community," </li><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/31/horde-webmail-inbox-one-click/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hackers can steal the contents of Horde webmail inboxes with one click</a> — Horde is one of the most popular free and open-source web email systems available. It’s built and maintained by a core team of developers, with contributions from the wider open-source community. It’s used by universities, libraries and many web hosting providers as the default email client.</li><li><a href="https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14926" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Horde Webmail - XSS + CSRF to SQLi, RCE, Stealing Emails &lt;= v5.2.22</a> — Horde Webmail - XSS + CSRF to SQLi, RCE, Stealing Emails &lt;= v5.2.22</li><li><a href="https://protonmail.com/blog/ios-open-source/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ProtonMail iOS app is open source - ProtonMail Blog</a> — As part of our commitment to security, we are putting all of our software through rigorous, independent third-party audits.</li><li><a href="https://protonmail.com/blog/ios-open-source/#comment-19080" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Android App Soon</a></li><li><a href="https://sitekit.withgoogle.com/news/site-kit-is-now-available-for-all-wordpress-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites</a> — Site Kit is Google’s official WordPress plugin </li></ul>

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GNOME decides to fight, Ubuntu's desktop director steps down, GitLab backs off its telemetry plans, and we've got the data on Google's Project Treble. Plus, the latest Firefox has a new dashboard, and it looks like Disney+ won't work on Linux.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:GNOME files defense against patent troll — Agreeing to this would leave this patent live, and allow this to be used as a weapon against countless others. We will stand firm against this baseless attack, not just for GNOME and Shotwell, but for all free and open source software projects.Will Cooke, the Director of Engineering for the Ubuntu desktop, has left Canonical — That's all folks!  Eoan was my last #Ubuntu release and I am handing over the reigns to the ever awesome @m_wimpress. Expect 20.04 LTS to be amazingly amazing! Excited for my new gig @InfluxDBLatest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers — Today we’re introducing a new feature that offers you a free report outlining the number of third-party and social media trackers blocked automatically by the Firefox browser with Enhanced Tracking Protection.GitLab telemetry debacle — To make GitLab better faster, we need more data on how users are using GitLab. Announcing $268 million in Series E fundingGoogle shows just how much Project Treble has improved OS Android adoption — Project Treble modularizes Android to make it easier for OEMs to update devices.It looks like Disney Plus won’t work on Linux — Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM, avoid  

GNOME decides to fight, Ubuntu's desktop director steps down, GitLab backs off its telemetry plans, and we've got the data on Google's Project Treble. Plus, the latest Firefox has a new dashboard, and it looks like Disney+ won't work on Linux.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/#" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GNOME files defense against patent troll</a> — Agreeing to this would leave this patent live, and allow this to be used as a weapon against countless others. We will stand firm against this baseless attack, not just for GNOME and Shotwell, but for all free and open source software projects.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/8none1/status/1186986800851640320" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Will Cooke, the Director of Engineering for the Ubuntu desktop, has left Canonical</a> — That's all folks! Eoan was my last #Ubuntu release and I am handing over the reigns to the ever awesome @m_wimpress. Expect 20.04 LTS to be amazingly amazing! Excited for my new gig @InfluxDB</li><li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/10/22/latest-firefox-brings-privacy-protections-front-and-center-letting-you-track-the-trackers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers</a> — Today we’re introducing a new feature that offers you a free report outlining the number of third-party and social media trackers blocked automatically by the Firefox browser with Enhanced Tracking Protection.</li><li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/10/update-free-software-and-telemetry/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GitLab telemetry debacle</a> — To make GitLab better faster, we need more data on how users are using GitLab. </li><li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/09/17/gitlab-series-e-funding/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Announcing $268 million in Series E funding</a></li><li><a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/google-project-treble-improved-os-android-adoption/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google shows just how much Project Treble has improved OS Android adoption</a> — Project Treble modularizes Android to make it easier for OEMs to update devices.</li><li><a href="https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/22338.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It looks like Disney Plus won’t work on Linux</a> — Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM, avoid  </li></ul>

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Ubuntu Pro is a click away, and their kernel goes rolling on AWS. We process the range of announcements, while Mozilla cranks up the security and impresses us with DeepSpeech. Plus why Ubuntu is taking the Windows Subsystem for Linux so seriously.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services — New premium Ubuntu images with extended security, kernel live patching and moreIntroducing the Ubuntu AWS Rolling KernelCanonical Announces "Ubuntu Pro" For AWSCanonical makes Ubuntu for Windows SubSystem for Linux a priorityAmazon Announces Graviton2 SoC Along With New 64-Core Arm Instances — The new Graviton2 SoC is a custom design by Amazon’s own in-house silicon design teams and is a successor to the first-generation Graviton chip. The new chip quadruples the core count from 16 cores to 64.Graviton pulse - Memory AlphaAWS Goes All In On Arm-Based Graviton2 ProcessorsFirefox 71 Released — Native MP3 decoding on Windows, Linux, and macOSFirefox 71 Linux Performance Isn't Looking All That GreatFirefox Private Network BetaFirefox VPN Sign UpMozilla launches the next phase of its Firefox Private Network VPN betaAvast Online Security and Avast Secure Browser are spying on youMozilla updates DeepSpeech with an English language model that runs 'faster than real time'

Ubuntu Pro is a click away, and their kernel goes rolling on AWS. We process the range of announcements, while Mozilla cranks up the security and impresses us with DeepSpeech. Plus why Ubuntu is taking the Windows Subsystem for Linux so seriously.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-announces-ubuntu-pro-for-amazon-web-services" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services</a> — New premium Ubuntu images with extended security, kernel live patching and more</li><li><a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/introducing-the-ubuntu-aws-rolling-kernel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Introducing the Ubuntu AWS Rolling Kernel</a></li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Canonical-Ubuntu-Pro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canonical Announces "Ubuntu Pro" For AWS</a></li><li><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-makes-ubuntu-for-windows-subsystem-for-linux-a-priority/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canonical makes Ubuntu for Windows SubSystem for Linux a priority</a></li><li><a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/15189/amazon-announces-graviton2-soc-along-with-new-aws-instances-64core-arm-with-large-performance-uplifts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon Announces Graviton2 SoC Along With New 64-Core Arm Instances</a> — The new Graviton2 SoC is a custom design by Amazon’s own in-house silicon design teams and is a successor to the first-generation Graviton chip. The new chip quadruples the core count from 16 cores to 64.</li><li><a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Graviton_pulse" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Graviton pulse - Memory Alpha</a></li><li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2019/12/03/aws-goes-all-in-on-arm-based-graviton2-processors-with-ec2-6th-gen-instances/#4ba55d1a2c89" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AWS Goes All In On Arm-Based Graviton2 Processors</a></li><li><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox 71 Released</a> — Native MP3 decoding on Windows, Linux, and macOS</li><li><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Firefox-71-Performance" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox 71 Linux Performance Isn't Looking All That Great</a></li><li><a href="https://fpn.firefox.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox Private Network Beta</a></li><li><a href="https://fpn.firefox.com/vpn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox VPN Sign Up</a></li><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/03/mozilla-launches-the-next-beta-phase-of-its-firefox-private-network-vpn/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mozilla launches the next phase of its Firefox Private Network VPN beta</a></li><li><a href="https://palant.de/2019/10/28/avast-online-security-and-avast-secure-browser-are-spying-on-you/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Avast Online Security and Avast Secure Browser are spying on you</a></li><li><a href="https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/05/mozilla-updates-deepspeech-with-an-english-language-model-that-runs-faster-than-real-time/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mozilla updates DeepSpeech with an English language model that runs 'faster than real time'</a></li></ul>

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Microsoft Defender for Linux is in preview, Mozilla's VPN has a secret advantage, and why the community is calling out NPM Inc. Plus a new report about open source security, and more.Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Microsoft: Linux Defender antivirus now in public preview — We're aiming to protect the modern workplace environment across everything that it is, being Microsoft or non-Microsoft.Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterpriseMicrosoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint now live under one AppMicrosoft Works - WikipediaFirefox releases an Android app for its VPN service — The Firefox Private Network VPN is powered by Mullvad VPN. Mullvad VPN claims that it won’t log and monitor user data, unlike many other VPN services. The Private Internet Access Android app is being open sourcedIVPN applications are now open sourceTom Scott video about VPNsAndroid 11 Developer Preview — All the changes we found from Android 10 so far.npm struggling to fund FOSS devs — Funding free software is 'still a very unsolved problem' says co-founderThe Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science Release Census for Open Source Software Security — New analysis identifies most widely used software and uncovers critical questions for the future of securing one of the world’s greatest shared resourcesThe Linux Foundation identifies most important open-source software components and their problems — In its latest study, the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative discovered just how prevalent open-source components are in all software and their shared problems and vulnerabilities.Most-used libraries revealedThe Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science release census for open-source software security — Census II (run by Harvard) wanted to look at language-level packages. Their report discusses some of the challenges. One challenge of many is that the JavaScript environment strongly encourages tiny modules, with around 1/2 of all JavaScript packages having at most one function. As a result, when you start counting dependencies, there are *far* more dependencies in JavaScript (because each module does so little), and so JavaScript tends to dominate. 

Microsoft Defender for Linux is in preview, Mozilla's VPN has a secret advantage, and why the community is calling out NPM Inc. Plus a new report about open source security, and more.<a href="https://www.jupiter.party/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Linux Action News</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-linux-defender-antivirus-now-in-public-preview-ios-and-android-are-next/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft: Linux Defender antivirus now in public preview</a> — We're aiming to protect the modern workplace environment across everything that it is, being Microsoft or non-Microsoft.</li><li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/02/20/microsoft-threat-protection-intelligence-automation/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/20/microsoft_mobile_office_app_live/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint now live under one App</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft Works - Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/firefox-releases-an-android-app-for-its-vpn-service/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox releases an Android app for its VPN service</a> — The Firefox Private Network VPN is powered by Mullvad VPN. Mullvad VPN claims that it won’t log and monitor user data, unlike many other VPN services. </li><li><a href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2020/02/the-private-internet-access-android-app-is-being-open-sourced/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Private Internet Access Android app is being open sourced</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ivpn.net/blog/ivpn-applications-are-now-open-source" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IVPN applications are now open source</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tom Scott video about VPNs</a></li><li><a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/android-11-developer-preview-changes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Android 11 Developer Preview</a> — All the changes we found from Android 10 so far.</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/22/npm_funding_source/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">npm struggling to fund FOSS devs</a> — Funding free software is 'still a very unsolved problem' says co-founder</li><li><a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2020/02/the-linux-foundation-and-harvards-lab-for-innovation-science-release-census-for-open-source-software-security/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science Release Census for Open Source Software Security</a> — New analysis identifies most widely used software and uncovers critical questions for the future of securing one of the world’s greatest shared resources</li><li><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-foundation-identifies-the-most-important-open-source-software-components-and-their-problems/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Linux Foundation identifies most important open-source software components and their problems</a> — In its latest study, the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative discovered just how prevalent open-source components are in all software and their shared problems and vulnerabilities.</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/20/linux_foundation_report/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Most-used libraries revealed</a></li><li><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/812781/#Comments" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science release census for open-source software security</a> — Census II (run by Harvard) wanted to look at language-level packages. Their report discusses some of the challenges. One challenge of many is that the JavaScript environment strongly encourages tiny modules, with around 1/2 of all JavaScript packages having at most one function. As a result, when you start counting dependencies, there are *far* more dependencies in JavaScript (because each module does so little), and so JavaScript tends to dominate. </li></ul>

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